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Relativity Quotes by Brian Greene
- Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
- No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
More Relativity Quotes
- String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson
- In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm
- Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac
- It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright… — James C. Collins
- A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut
- Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings. — Albert Einstein
- Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory… — David Cassidy
- Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein