It is comprehensible that a person could not have arrived at such a far-reaching change of view by continuing to follow the old beaten paths, but only by introducing some sort of new idea.

Hendrik Lorentz

Non-Euclidean geometry is a study of which the primary motive was logical and philosophical.

Hendrik Lorentz

The whole Galileo-Newton system thus sank to the level of a first approximation, becoming progressively less exact as the velocities concerned approached that of light.

Hendrik Lorentz

Einstein had immense fame among physicists, and among all who are interested in the philosophy of science, because of his principle of relativity.

Hendrik Lorentz

Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity.

Hendrik Lorentz

In a car of a fast express train objects fall in just the same way as in a coach that is standing still. Only when we look at objects outside the train, or when the air can enter the car, do we notice indications of the motion.

Hendrik Lorentz

Everyone knows that a person may be sitting in any kind of a vehicle without noticing its progress, so long as the movement does not vary in direction or speed.

Hendrik Lorentz

The Newtonian theory can no longer be regarded as absolutely correct in all cases.

Hendrik Lorentz

In observable phenomena, which could be attributed to absolute motion of the observer.

Hendrik Lorentz

The equations on which the theory of relativity is based are due to Lorentz, but Einstein connected them with his general principle, namely, that there must be nothing.

Hendrik Lorentz

Briefly, it discards absolute time and space and makes them in every instance relative to moving systems.

Hendrik Lorentz

Einstein has put an end to this isolation; it is now well established that gravitation affects not only matter, but also light.

Hendrik Lorentz