19 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
7621 | Special relativity, unlike general relativity, was operationalist in spirit [Putnam on Einstein] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
22955 | Einstein took causation to be the bedrock of physics [Einstein, by Coveney/Highfield] |
20638 | General relativity assumes laws of nature are the same in all frames of reference [Einstein, by Close] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
20636 | Newton is a special case of Einstein's general theory, with an infinite speed of light [Einstein, by Close] |
21230 | The theory is 'special' because it sticks to observers moving straight, at constant speeds [Einstein, by Farmelo] |
21231 | Assume the speed of light is constant for all observers, and the laws of physics are the same [Einstein, by Farmelo] |
20634 | General Relativity says there is no absolute force or acceleration [Einstein, by Close] |
20648 | Mass is a measure of energy content [Einstein] |
21232 | Space-time arises from the connection between measurements of space and of time [Einstein, by Farmelo] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7626 | I do not believe in a personal God [Einstein] |