Daniel Frost Comstock

“ Such a light-velocity is not obviously consistent with the conception of light as a wave motion in a semi-material medium, but if there is anything that modern discoveries in fundamental physics have shown, it is that we must not reason too much from analogy or expect to find the most fundamental of all transformations of energy to resemble those transformations which we are familiar with in complex material systems. ”

“ THE negative result of all experiments to detect the earth's motion through space by its effect on terrestrial phenomena positively requires explanation, and the modern principle of relativity is generally conceded to be the most successful attempt to explain so far made. ”

“ It does not seem to have been generally noticed in this connection that if the velocity of light is assumed to depend on the velocity of the source, in the same way in which the velocity of a bullet depends upon the velocity of the gun, then we have a simple type of relativity which in many ways presents a striking contrast to the principle now in vogue. ”