Sentences with phrase «comments by philosophers»

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What struck Barbour most was Einstein's comment that his intuitive leap about space and time had been inspired by Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, whose study of the speed of sound in fluids helped explain the sonic boom heard when objects break the sound barrier.

When philosopher Davide Dal Sasso came to visit the Valerio Nicolai solo show Permanent Transformation of a Magician in Ant (Treti Galaxie, Torino, 2016), I got struck by his very first comment: «Ok, I'm here inside this art exhibition, but I'm not looking at the artworks, I'm looking at the birds».

A belated comment: my training is also as a philosopher, and I was consciously hired and employed as such by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).