Physics Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from imploding, Einstein…

— Walter Isaacson

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the…

— Adam Riess

“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general theory of…

— Walter Isaacson

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever…

— George Gamow

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he…

— George Gamow

“But Einstein refused to be mathematics’ pawn. He bucked the equations in favor of his intuition about how the cosmos should be, his deep-seated…

— Brian Greene

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

— Lee Vickers

“This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one…

— Walter Isaacson

“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.”

— Anonymous

“Instead, in what he later described as his greatest blunder, he changed his equations by adding an extra term that allowed our Universe to…

— Max Tegmark

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

— Lee Smolin

“The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little…

— Michael Swanwick