3 Quotes by Joseph Mazur

Time dilation, inconstancy of mass, and special relativity suggest that motion is indeed illusory.

After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.