Albert Einstein Quotes

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

Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties—all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

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.

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

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

… theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

The field equations and the whole history of general relativity have been complicated.

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

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.

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

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 main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

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.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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

Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

If you aren't confused by quantum physics, then you haven't really understood it