Relativity Quotes

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

Einstein gave us a problem he knew we would never solve.

A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Time is an illusion.

Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles!Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later!

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.