Browsing Topic Best Relativity Quotes

You never fail until you stop trying.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein’s geometric theory of general relativity.

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

Einstein’s theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum – for small things.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, butthat society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice…. [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveriesin particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

Evolution … is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved…. The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith…. On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury’s trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing…

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.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.