Creativity Quote by Walter Isaacson

“So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand…

— Felix Alba-Juez

“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them…

— Victor J. Stenger

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in…

— Sol Luckman

“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905 five…

— C.P. Snow

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer

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

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum…

— Robert Nozick

“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…

— George Wilson

“Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the…

— Winifred Gallagher

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other…

— Albert Einstein