Quotes on Relativity

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

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

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

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

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

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.