Relativity Quotes

Relativity Quote of the day

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Time is an illusion.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.