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[T]he formal content of special relativity is entirely coded in the Lorentz transformations, which were written by Lorentz, not by Einstein, and several years before 1905. What was Einstein’s contribution? It was to understand the physical meaning of the Lorentz transformation.

— Carlo Rovelli (1993)

On Quantum Mechanics
, p. 3