Quotes About Relativity

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear, said her father looking at the clock. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

relativity and quantum theory agree, in that they both imply the need to look on the world as an undivided whole, in which all parts of the universe, including the observer and his instruments, merge and unite in one totality. In this totality, the atomistic form of insight is a simplification and an abstraction, valid only in some limited context.

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

Always be sure to never speak in absolutes.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

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

Just remember: Forever is relative. What one person sees as three years can feel like a lifetime to another.

Each thing's its own partner, each always both, depending on where you stand,

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The fine structure constant is undoubtedly the most fundamental pure (dimensionless) number in all of physics. It relates the basic constants of electromagnetism (the charge of the electron), relativity (the speed of light), and quantum mechanics (Planck's constant).

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

But the young man in his twenties is still in peak dreaming season: a thrilling time, an insecure time, even at the best of times. It should be a season full of possibility. Economic, romantic, technological, political, existential possibility. Yes, among all the various relativities to be considered, age is one that can't be parsed. The style of Cy - the style of all young people - now radically interrupted.