"No mathematician can give any meaning to the language about matter, force, inertia used in current text-books of mechanics."

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Albert EinsteinTheoretical physics
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William Kingdon Clifford, Nature (June 10, 1880) as quoted by Karl Pearson, in his Preface to Clifford's The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885)