Quotes About Relativity

A more refined morality must have as its base a once rigid belief in right and wrong based on a fear of perdition that permits of no shading, of no relativity. And when I speak here of perdition, it makes no difference whether perdition amounts to damnation in hell or the loss of parental affection. If, as modern middle-class parents are often advised, affection is guaranteed to the child no matter what, there will be no fear. But neither will there be much morality.

I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all my own publishing and making a deal that was quite advantageous for a new solo artist. But I really didn't think of myself as an entrepreneur.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.

Time is not linear. It does not go along on a steady course like a road from London to York. It does not have a beginning and it does not have an end, nor is it the same to one person as it is to another, nor to two planets or a million stars. It is different in all circumstances. Because it is relative.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

The flood of popular scientific books in America is inspired partly, though of course not wholly, by the unwillingness to admit that there is anything in science that only experts can understand. The idea that special training may be necessary to understand, say, the theory of relativity, causes a sort of irritation, although nobody is irritated by the fact that special training is necessary in order to be a first-rate football player.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Something is neutral only with respect to something else—like an intention or an expectation.

The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out, but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing, that was what was known as relativity.

All laws and ideas are historical and relative, not absolute. They are relevant to their particular time and place

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

When people photograph an object, they often put a pack of cigarettes next to it to give the viewer a sense of the object's actual size, but the pack of cigarettes next to the images in my memory expanded and contracted, depending on my mood at the time. Like the objects and events in constant flux, or perhaps in opposition to them, what should have been a fixed yardstick inside the framework of my memory seemed instead to be in perpetual motion.

En muchos casos, el dolor se puede mitigar y suprimir mediante otro dolor diferente. La sensibilidad es algo completamente relativo.

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.