“我完全同意你认为方法论、科学史以及科学哲学很重要并具有教育意义。如今很多人——甚至专业科学家——都让我觉得像是他们看过千万棵树,但没见过森林。有历史、哲学背景相关知识就可以从大部分科学家都持有的,当代科学界的偏见中独立出来。我认为这种独立就是一个单纯的工匠或专家与真正追求真理的人的区别。”Einstein. letter to Robert A. Thornton, 7 December 1944. EA 61–574.
Roger Penrose, 2004. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN0-224-04447-8 (hardcover), 0-09-944068-7 (paperback).
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (p. 3). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition."Because it is a sphere, Aristotle's universe contains a geometrically privileged center, and Aristotle makes reference to that center in characterizing the natural motions of different sorts of matter. “Upward,”“downward,” and “uniform circular motion” all are defined in terms of the center of the universe."
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (p. 4). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. "Aristotle adopts the concept of space, and the correlative concept of motion, that we all intuitively employ."
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (pp. 4–5). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. "Newtonian physics is implicit in his First Law of Motion: Law I : Every body perseveres in its state either of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by impressed forces. 1 This single law smashes the Aristotelian universe to smithereens."
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (pp. 5). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (pp. 9–10). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. "Newton believed in the existence of a spatial arena with the geometrical structure of E3. He believed that this infinite three-dimensional space exists at every moment of time. And he also believed something much more subtle and controversial, namely, that identically the same points of space persist through time."
Tim Maudlin(英语:Tim Maudlin) (2012-07-22). Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) (p. 12). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. "...space must have a topology, an affine structure, and a metric; time must be one-dimensional with a topology and a metric; and, most importantly, the individual parts of space must persist through time.
Bernard d'Espagnat, 1989. Reality and the Physicist. Cambridge Univ. Press. Trans. of Une incertaine réalité; le monde quantique, la connaissance et la durée.
--------, 1995. Veiled Reality. Addison-Wesley.
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Roland Omnes(英语:Roland Omnes), 1994. The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton Univ. Press.