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In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you`re screwed.

- Leonor Varela

(giving the most practical, understandable explanation of the Theory of Relativity; how time can expand or contract) You spend 30 minutes with a beautiful girl, it seems like a moment. You spend a moment sitting on a hot stove, it seems like 30 minutes.

- Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That`s relativity.

- Albert Einstein

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

- Yahoo Serious

(on his upcoming project, The Flash (2010)) "We`re going to go into the `Speed Force` and a lot of the cosmic aspects of the character from the more recent past, trust me, we`re going to do a lot more than have the Flash run on water and create vortexes. I have a guy from M.I.T. helping me with all of this. We`re going to be playing with relativity, Doppler effects and all kinds of things like that. Audiences will be amazed."

- David S. Goyer

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you`re going to fail.

- Brian Greene

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

- Al Carter

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

- Alan Reiter

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

- André Glucksmann

So what I`m saying is why don`t we think about changing Schrodinger`s equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein`s general relativity.

- Andre Dreicon

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.

- Albert Einstein

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

- Albert Einstein

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.

- Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT`S relativity.

- Albert Einstein

No, I don`t understand my husband`s theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.

- Elsa Einstein