“Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical gar…”

“Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king...[I]ts exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.”

— Nikola Tesla

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Title: Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla
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In The New York Times (11 July 1935), p. 23, c. 8

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