Originally Posted by Arneb

a retranslation from the German): "With this discovery, a purely +++physical consideration had, for the first time, directly influenced ***physics. That was tantamount to a sensation. The imagination of X had founded +++***physics.

X is the guy who had the idea
+++ and *** stand for different disciplines of physics. The philosphy I have in mind is hidden in the +++physics.

Now how is that not a dead giveaway.