Relativity Quotes

142 quotes by 99 authors

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of… — Armstrong Williams
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does… — Philippe Starck
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle… — Lee Smolin
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that… — Lee Smolin
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. — Adam Savage
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't… — Vassily Ivanchuk
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to… — Peter Galison
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing. — Albert Einstein
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… — Albert Einstein
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in… — Albert Einstein
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where… — Albert Einstein
In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed — Leonor Varela
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,… — G. H. Hardy
Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that… — Richard Dawkins
In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you… — Edward Witten

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