Relativity Quotes

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

(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.

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.

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

(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."

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

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.

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.

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