"[Zurich,] where the students, even the most capable among them, ... are accustomed to get everything spoon-fed."

"H. A. Lorentz has found out the Relativity theorem and has created the Relativity postulate as a hypothesis that elec…"

"Ever since Hermann Minkowski's now infamous comments in 1908 concerning the proper way to view space-time, the debate…"

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and the…"

"The whole world appears resolved into such world-lines. And I should like to say beforehand that, according to my opi…"

"The word postulate of relativity... appears to me very stale... I should rather like to give this statement the name …"

"The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the princip…"

"Oh, that Einstein, always cutting lectures... I really would not believe him capable of it."

"It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mat…"

"The assumption of the contraction of the electron in Lorentz's theory must be introduced at an earlier stage than Lor…"