111 Quotes About Relativity

Relativity, in our case, means that success is relative to the time frame you choose to measure it with. An hour? A month? A year? A decade? A lifetime?

None of these things is happening here. They are all happening far away, elsewhere.But they may as well be, Iris says. What does here mean anyway, I’d like to know. Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?

Suppose a person has been having constant headache since he was born. He doesn't know what it feels to not have a headache.For him, headache won't feel like headache. It would feel like a sensation very much like sensation of heart beating in the chest. You can not experience pain if you haven't experienced lack of pain.

A minute is a log time when you're in pain.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

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

There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism, and other fields are only manifestations of the bending of space. Physics is geometry.

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.

... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine structure constant, a theoretical understanding of which is still missing today.