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“However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to…

— Albert Einstein

Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The…

— David C. Cassidy

“The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological and, being…

— Felix Alba-Juez

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

— Douglas Sirk

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

— Michael Moorcock

What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical…

— Paul Dirac

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

— Albert Einstein

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a…

— Nikola Tesla

“Indoctrination,” Michael Simpson replied. “We still base our science on the Theory of Relativity. Not because it is one hundred percent correct, but because…

— Erik Hamre

By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no relation to…

— Rainer Weiss

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or,…

— Edward Teller

“Science is progressive and self-correcting: no significantly erroneous conclusions or false hypotheses can be sustained for long, as newer observations will ultimately knock down…

— Francis S. Collins