General relativity Quote by Anonymous

“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only…

— Walter Isaacson

“The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had…

— Walter Isaacson

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919…

— Albert Einstein

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced…

— Brian Greene

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what…

— Arthur Eddington

“General Theory of Relativity.”

— Lee Vickers

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

— Michael Moorcock

“Indeed, upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general…

— Robert Charles Wilson

When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his…

— Jacob Epstein

“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Richard P. Feynman