Stephen Leacock Quotes

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

It’s all right that you do not understand my Theory of Relativity. I do not understand your Theory of Normalcy.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.