General relativity Quote by Walter Isaacson

“The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had…

— Walter Isaacson

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's…

— Anonymous

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what…

— Arthur Eddington

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919…

— Albert Einstein

“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

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

— Albert Einstein

“Without a doubt, Einstein’s greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an end.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“His head-snapping insight was that gravity could be defined as the curvature of spacetime, and thus it could be represented by a metric tensor.”

— Walter Isaacson

“General Theory of Relativity.”

— Lee Vickers

“She wanted to know how Galileo and Newton and Einstein discovered the things they discovered. She wanted to know how they could have lived…

— Amy Zhang