Quotes About Relativity

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Never and forever are usually neither

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?

There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true? He answered, The question has no meaning. As well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity.

Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.

Benny Anger: What's up, doc? Doc Manhattan: Up is a relative concept; it has no intrinsic value.

Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein?

Hamlet: 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

We'd insist that all truth was relative, that there was no reality without signifiers, that there was no there there, that nothing, in fact, really existed.

It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything.

But here too there's a problem – the faster you go, the more time slows down. This is a scientific fact. I spend my life driving quickly, which is why I have a 1970s haircut.

if things which are good in themselves as being the handiwork of a good Creator are called vanity, it is because they are compared with things which are better still. For example, compared with a lamp, a lantern is good for nothing; compared with a star, a lamp does not shine at all; the brightest star pales before the moon; put the moon beside the sun, and it no longer looks bright; compare the sun with Christ, and it is darkness. " I am that I am, " God says; [ Exodus 3: 14 ]

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.