Relativity Quotes

Treason is a matter of dates.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

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.

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

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

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way is of no use of all.

What darkness to you is light to me

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.