Relativity Quotes · Page 5

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only…

— Edward Teller

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so…

— Robert Nozick

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes its not the happy ending you can relate to, But the sad life some one had to live to get there.

— Levita Charin

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

— Albert Einstein

The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and…

— Norbert Wiener

Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates…

— Dean Kamen

In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue…

— Brian Greene

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Chen-Ning Yang

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity…

— Andrea M. Ghez

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have…

— Stephen Hawking

“To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must…

— Kenneth Schmitt

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the…

— Terence McKenna

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the…

— Brian Greene

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Eoin Colfer

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on…

— Albert Einstein

“... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of…

— Wolfgang Pauli

No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum…

— Paul Dirac

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Toute passe–yesterday’s truth is to-day’s deception, and yesterday’s false inference may be to-morrow’s revelation.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— Vera Nazarian

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only…

— Douglas Sirk