Relativity Quotes

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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. — Brian Greene
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… — Brian Greene
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is,… — Brian Greene
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the… — Brian Greene
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high… — Brian Greene
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration… — Paul Davies
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an… — Albert Einstein
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp… — Stephen Hawking
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great… — Talcott Parsons
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that… — Mandy Patinkin
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
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed. — A. N. Wilson
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,… — Fritjof Capra
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of… — Douglas Adams
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world.… — Albert Einstein

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