RELATIVITY

I AM CONVINCED THAT THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE HAD A HARMFUL EFFECT  UPON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING IN REMOVING CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS FROM THE DOMAIN OF EMPIRICICISM, WHERE TTHEY ARE UNDER OUR CONTROL, TO THE INTANGIBLE  HEIGHTS OF THE A PRIORI. FOR EVEN IF IT SHHOULD APPEAR THAT THE UNIVERSE OF IDEAS CANNOT BE DEDUCED FROM EXPERINCE BY LOGICAL MEANS, BUT IS, IN A SENSE A CREATION OF THE HUMAN MIND, WHITHOUT WHICH NO SCIECE IS POSSIBLE, NEVERTHELESS THIS UNIVERSE OF IDEAS IS JUST AS LITTLE INDEPENDENT OF THE NATURE OF OUR EXPERIENCES AS CLOTHESA ARE OF THE FORM OF THE HUMAN BODY. THIS IS PARTICURLARLY TRUE OF OUR CONCEPTS OF TIME AND SPACE WHICH PHISICISTS HAVE BEEN OBLIGED BY THE FACTS TO BRING DOWN FROM THE OLYMPUS OF THE APRIORI IN ORDER TO ADJUST THEM AND PUT THEM IN A SERVICEABLE CONDITION