Re: Who said this and when ?

Congratulations Dirk - H.G. Wells in 1898 and as an extension of that
passage,
who said this -

"The non-mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he
hears of "four-dimensional" things, by a feeling not unlike that
awakened by thoughts of the occult. And yet there is no more
common-place statement than that the world in which we live is a
four-dimensional space-time continuum."

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