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

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

"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 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…"

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

"By laying down the relativity postulate from the outset, sufficient means have been created for deducing henceforth t…"