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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.

Brian Greene

Thinking, Space, Challenges

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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

Brian Greene

Believe, Together, Mechanic

NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

Brian Greene

School, Math, Firsts

"Sunday Q&A: Physicist seeks truth about cosmos". Interview With Eric Berger, www.chron.com. September 27, 2009.

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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.

Stephen Hawking

Travel, Space, Rockets

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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Views, Development, Safe

TALCOTT PARSONS (1937). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Mandy Patinkin

Jesus, Kings, Believe

"Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Jerry Saltz

Art, Ideas, Theory

"Saltz: MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively". www.vulture.com. January 6, 2013.

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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Impact, Special, Bangs

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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

A. N. Wilson

World, Physics, Theory

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The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

Leigh Page

Science, Age, Ears

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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Eye, Science, Technology

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.219, Ultramarine Publishing

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Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Paul Dirac

Science, Example, Needs

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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

W. Edwards Deming

Thinking, Discovery, Events

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

Albert Einstein

Matter

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.376, Princeton University Press

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

Albert Einstein

Philosophical, Theory, Given

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.375, Princeton University Press

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

Albert Einstein

Arguing, Theory, Waiter

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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. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Albert Einstein

Children, Thinking, Space

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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

Albert Einstein

Reality, Space, Rooms

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.25, St. Martin's Press

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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Albert Einstein

Confused, Men, World

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Abstract

R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.155, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.

Jacob Epstein

Book, Nazi, Enough

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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Law, Numbers, Connections

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Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

Nina Berberova

Our World, Rooms, Literature

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Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.

L. Neil Smith

Real, Ignorance, Self

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Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Leonard Susskind

Reality, Special, Different

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