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- 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
- 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
- The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor
- I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor
- When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe… — Werner Heisenberg