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Relativity Quotes by Lee Smolin
- 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…
- 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…
- General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
More Relativity Quotes
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. — Douglas Adams
- In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm
- It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born
- By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein
- 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
- The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski