Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"
General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that's been the big challenge and that's why we have been excited about string theory, as it's one of the only approaches that can put it together.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.
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 my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying. . . that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding 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
The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.
