#relativity

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #love

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost. ↗

— Philip Sington

#relativity #s-bahn #time #movies

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

— Thomas Cochrane

#biology #morals #must #physics #realm

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#mirrors #relativity #humor

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#life

The source of all light is in the eye. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#nature #observation #relativity #nature

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hungarian-horntail #panic #relativity #strange

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#mathematics #physics #relativity #mathematics

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#einstein #general #general relativity #mechanics #only