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• Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Thinking, Hearing

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• The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  World, Masters, Unlimited

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• Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

  Steven Weinberg

  Marriage, Beauty, Beautiful

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• How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Ethics, Virtue

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• 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

  Funny, Husband, Women

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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

  David Bohm

  Movement, Mechanic, Quantum

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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• I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

  G. H. Hardy

  Real, Science, Numbers

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• There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fields, Caught, Periods

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
  Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  Max Born

  Mean, Body, Adequate

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• To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

  Alan Watts

  Wise, Technology, Men

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• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Computer, Theory

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Important, Use

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• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Moral Absolutism, Spheres, Physics

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• I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Way, Knows

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

  The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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• When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Believe, Two, Answers

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• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  Charles Lane Poor

  Reading, Science, Mad

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• The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.

  Charles Lane Poor

  Crazy, Science, Space

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• A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Faith, Mean, Other Cultures

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• 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.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Doctors, Fowl

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Girl, Time, Nice

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Reality, Ideas, Space

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?

  Tami Hoag

  Party, Fighting, Clubs

  Tami Hoag (2013). “The 9th Girl”, p.35, Penguin

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