Being there Quote by Joe Haldeman

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

— Albert Einstein

“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The…

— Richard Holmes

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

— Leonard Susskind

“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general…

— Robert Charles Wilson

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory.…

— Douglas Sirk

My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so…

— Paul Laffoley

Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves…

— L.A. Paul

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see…

— Jack Finney

“Here I am taking a psychological characteristic such as the need to know where in the world we are (orientation) and show that when…

— John Fielding

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

— Albert Einstein

It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense…

— Will Self