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I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.

Hendrik Lorentz
Words Of Wisdom, Energy, Ordinary
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1916). “The Theory of Electrons and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Light and Radiant Heat”
I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary