Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore Quotes

“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”
― Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.”
― Manuel Toharia-Cortés, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.”
― Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”
― Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.”
― Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.”
― Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.”
― Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.”
― Felix Alba-Juez, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly and easily through society, hiding and diminishing the powerful reality of what the new ideas and technologies can offer to humanity.”
― Manuel Toharia-Cortés, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.”
― Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore