Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition

by Albert Einstein

I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler.

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the subject of three-dimensional Euclidean geometry, whose axiomatic structure readily deceives us into forgetting that it refers to realisable situations.

Since the special theory of relativity revealed the physical equivalence of all inertial systems, it proved the untenability of the hypothesis of an æther at rest.

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Einstein’s discussion of this subject may be viewed as the genesis of modern cosmology.

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