Theories Of Relativity Quotes

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

In Einstein’s theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Einstein didn’t speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time … On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn’t bother me.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?” Artemis blinked. “Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton’s formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. … They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity