"Though a true experimental decision between the theory of Lorentz and the theory of relativity is indeed not to be gained, and that the former, in spite of this, has receded into the background, is chiefly due to the fact that, close as it comes to the theory of relativity, it still lacks the great simple universal principle, the possession of which lends the theory of relativity an imposing appearance."
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Max von Laue, quoted in Ernst Cassirer, Substance and Function: Einstein's theory of relativity (1923)
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