Theory Of Special Relativity Quotes

#1. It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

James C. Collins

#2. Einstein, like myself, found Bern pleasant but boring. And so I wonder: If the Swiss were more interesting, might he never have daydreamed as much as he did? Might he never have developed the Special Theory of Relativity? In other words, is there something to be said for boredom?

Eric Weiner

#3. It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..] ...

Robert B. Laughlin

#4. It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.

Albert Einstein

#5. The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Albert Einstein

#6. Many of us have no grasp of quantum theory, or Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, but this does not in itself lead us to oppose these theories! Darwinism, unlike 'Einsteinism', seems to be regarded as fair game for critics with any degree of ignorance.

Richard Dawkins

#7. What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.

Albert Einstein

#8. More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.

Albert Einstein

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

Leonard Susskind