Relativity Quotes · Page 7

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely…

— G. H. Hardy

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity…

— G. H. Hardy

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

— Freeman Dyson

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best…

— Alan Guth

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

— Albert Einstein

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at…

— Roger Penrose

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

— Toba Beta

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a…

— Carl Rogers

“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell…

— Bill Gaede

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key…

— Arthur Kroker

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

— Deepak Chopra

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

— Craig Ferguson

Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining…

— Vassily Ivanchuk

“All days are today. That is the relative paradox of the universe.”

— Hincks Anthony T

“I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t…

— Anonymous

An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at…

— David Mermin

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said…

— E. L. Doctorow

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn…

— Albert Einstein

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

— Jerry Saltz

“Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a…

— Kip Thorne

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there…

— Richard P. Feynman

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half…

— Roy H. Williams

“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in…

— C.P. Snow