People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
As Einstein once wrote, "People like us, who believe in physics, know the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
Einstein, in a letter to a bereaved friend, wrote (as if it provided some comfort): "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
He even consoled a friend's widow by saying that "people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".For time to be "real", in Mr Smolin's sense, it cannot be relative.
People like us...know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
More recently, Einstein acknowledged "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".
Under these conditions, frequently encountered in intimate relations between partners, or between infants and caregivers, a social softness illusion arises: people have the persistent illusion that others' skin is softer and smoother than theirs, irrespective of any individual skin differences.
He says some smart things about Fitzgerald's imagery — about, for instance, how ambiguous the idea of light is in his writing, so that the green light at the end of the dock is a portent of the shining illusory screen of the movies, standing for persistent illusion as much as for romantic aspiration.
Yet the human concerns of prestige and power tend to hide behind the economic values of productivity and prosperity, with the persistent illusion that one will easily pass for the other.
All four of this summer's other hot spots illustrate a persistent undercurrent of political life on the continent's west side: where there are internal doubts about legitimacy, stability is an illusion.
