Quotes About Relativity

The art of theatrical story-telling is necessarily relative to the audience to whom the story is to be told. One must assume an audience of a certain status and characteristics before one can rationally discuss the best methods of appealing to its intelligence and its sympathies.

If we supposed that theories gave true knowledge, corresponding to 'reality as it is', then we would have to conclude that Newtonian theory was true until around 1900, after which it suddenly became false, while relativity and quantum theory suddenly became the truth. Such an absurd conclusion does not arise, however, if we say that all theories are insights, which are neither true nor false but, rather, clear in certain domains, and unclear when extended beyond these domains.

good' and 'evil' are concepts humans made up in order to compare ourselves with one another. It follows that arguing about whether humans are fundamentally good or evil makes about as much sense as arguing about whether humans are fundamentally fat or thin.

Jung summarized his work in typology and how it related to the Tao as follows: The book on types yielded the insight that every judgment made by an individual is conditioned by his [or her] personality type and that every point of view is necessarily relative. This raised the question of the unity which must compensate this diversity, and it led me directly to the Chinese concept of Tao.73

the fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

God has made no one absolute.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

I didn't intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that's just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days.

Suddenly, I saw ocean again—then another horizon line—but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line…the Holy crap, we're upside down side.

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball