Quotes About Relativity

Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Time is relative, said Heraclitus a long time ago, and distance a function of velocity. Since the ultimate goal of transport technology is the annihilation of space, the compression of all Being into one pure point, it follows that six-packs help. Speed is the ultimate drug and rockets run on alcohol.

Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.

Aceasta e aberaÈ›ia puterii: în ultim? instan?? este eficace numai într-un Univers absolut, limitat. Dar lecÈ›ia de c?p?tâi a Universului nostru relativist este c? lucrurile se schimb?. Orice putere trebuie s? înfrunte întotdeauna o putere mai mare.

quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.

Relativity asserts that all observers, whatever their velocities relative to one another, measure exactly the same number for the speed of light. The invariance of the speed of light allows two apparently unrelated quantities, the dimension of time and the three dimensions of space, to be united into one four-dimensional entity, spacetime.

As we shall see in the next section, however, all fundamental particles have zero mass. A zero-mass particle necessarily moves at the speed of light.

Determinism in relativistic quantum mechanics is called unitarity. Determinism in all forms of physics is concerned with time evolution.

My own view is that to understand quantum nonlocality we shall require a radical new theory. This new theory will not just be a slight modification of quantum mechanics but something as different from standard quantum mechanics as general relativity is from Newtonian gravity. It would have to be something which has a completely different conceptual framework.

As Einstein said years later, talking to Sir Herbert Samuel in the grounds of Government House, Jerusalem: "If Michelson-Morley is wrong, then relativity is wrong.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

Spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move... Mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve

One of the curious problems of physics is that it has two beautifully effective theories – quantum mechanics and general relativity – but they govern different realms of Nature.

We can't go far in morality before realizing that right is a relative thing and that those who disagree with us may be striving for it as earnestly as we are ourselves. It is the spirit that counts.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Earth relates to the Universe as the second segment of the left antenna of an aphid sitting on a flower petal in a garden in Teaneck, New Jersey, for a few hours this afternoon.

Porque na vida há tantos tipos de perspectivas, as chamadas grandes perspectivas, que todos consideram fundamentais, e as que eu chamo microperspectivas, que serão insignificantes, admito-o, mas se tudo é relativo, se a natureza concede que existam águias e formigas, por que razão, digo eu, não se poderá viver como as formigas, de microperspectivas?

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.