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“...to the question whether or not the motion of the Earth in space can be made perceptible in terrestrial experiments. We have already remarked... that all attempts of this nature led to a negative result. Before the theory of relativity was put forward, it was difficult to become reconciled to this negative result.”

— Albert Einstein

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Wikiquote: Albert Einstein
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Relativity – The Special and General Theory (1916), Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity, Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity

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Einstein, Albert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Albert Einstein. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

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