Quotes About Relativity

Einstein himself is reported to have said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Time even influenced postmodern artists such as Picasso, Braque, and Dalí. Picasso and Braque's cubist style, for instance, depicts people and objects as they exist from all perspectives simultaneously, while Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory depicts the malleability and relativity of time.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

The idea of Truth with capital T-that there is something called Truth that's beyond the range of the relativity of the human mind trying to think-is what I call the error of the found truth. The trouble with all of these damned preachers is the error of the found truth. When they get that tremolo in the voice and tell you what God has said, you know you've got a faker.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

Everything in the cosmos now proves to be relative. Nothing is autonomous in itself. All things in the world betray their interdependence with each other. Metaphysics ceases to be an abstract system of thought and becomes an experiential reality. Not beings in the world but the world itself comes to be questioned.

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either right or it's wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

The speed of light sucks.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

there are no absolute rights or wrongs; rather, there is less understanding and more understanding.

Did you ever read that story about the man who traveled to the future and found everyone there insane? Everyone. But since they were all insane they didn't know they were all insane. They all acted alike and so they thought themselves normal. And since our hero was the only sane one among them, he was abnormal; therefore, he was the insane one. To them, at least. Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

1. the law of perpetual transmutation 2. the law of relativity 3. the law of vibration 4. the law of polarity 5. the law of rhythm 6. the law of cause and effect 7. the law of gender

T]he Absolute Truth is that there is nothing absolute in the world, that everything is relative, conditional and impermanent, and that there is no unchanging, everlasting, absolute substance like Self, Soul, Atman within or without.

Es indudable que los resultados son importantes en un sinnúmero de situaciones de la vida y que siempre estarán presentes en nuestras acciones. Es muy difícil prescindir de ellos; incluso los santos están pendientes de alcanzar a Dios. Pero una cosa es aceptar su participación relativa y otra muy distinta ser esclavo de las consecuencias.

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

Everything is relative." The man didn't move a muscle as he spoke. "A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.

The passage of time is always relative to that which does not pass, to the timeless.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.