Astrophysics Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a…

— Rainer Weiss

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

— Barry Barish

For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven…

— Barry Barish

When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration…

— Barry Barish

It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through…

— Rainer Weiss

Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics…

— Rainer Weiss

Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that…

— Rainer Weiss

“Now, at the outset of the twenty-first century, we stand on the verge of a new revolution. The search for a deeper theory than…

— Marcus Chown

“Scientists have been trying to unify Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.”

— Lee Vickers