111 Quotes About Relativity

time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble

Toute passe–yesterday’s truth is to-day’s deception, and yesterday’s false inference may be to-morrow’s revelation.

To ignore your own ignorance is to admitthat you were the biggest fool you never were.P. HermansAugust 13, 2016Netherlands

The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quintessence of its own emptiness; the only image we had of the void was our own poor universe. All the void we would ever know was there, in the relativity of what is, for even the void had been no more than a relative void,a void secretly shot with veins and temptations to be something, given that in a moment of crisis at its own nothingness it had been able to give rise to the universe.

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

Relativity is all very relative.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Everything is relative, including relativity.

I’ve got good news and bad news for you, Ryan. The bad news is that you’re the only one in the world who can activate the Doomsday Machine, and Foe and his gang are never going to stop coming after you. The good news is that with myself and Valkyrie protecting you, you stand a very good chance of emerging from this relatively unscathed.”Valkyrie looked at the back of Skulduggery’s head. “You said they’d probably try to cut his hand off.”“I said relatively,” Skulduggery reminded her.