Quote#Time
From remote ages the great question with which, since Newton's time,…
Quote byJoseph Larmor · 1857–1942
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Aether and Matter (1900), pp. 23–24.
English (original)
From remote ages the great question with which, since Newton's time, we have been familiar under the somewhat misleading antithesis of contact versus distance, has engaged speculation,—how is that portions of matter can interact on each other which seem to have no means of connexion between them. Can a body act where it is not?
— Joseph Larmor
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