“No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically ... I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.”
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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and Viereck interview (1929), but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.
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