 That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...  Self Culture - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
 | Huw Price, Richard Corry - 2007 - 415 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws Causes... | |
 | Mendel Sachs - 2007 - 144 pages
...anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." [Both Faraday, of the 19th century, and Einstein,... | |
 | Henry P. Stapp - 2007 - 198 pages
...action and force my be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. This statement is a trenchant formulation of the notion of locality. It took more... | |
 | Frank Wilczek - 2008 - 288 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it. Nevertheless he left his... | |
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