What lead me more or less ...

What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The human spirit must prevail over technology.