Top 45 Time Relativity Quotes
#1. Truth is quantum. It is beyond space and time. Relativity only proves this.
Dean Cavanagh
#2. When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
Albert Einstein
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.
Max Born
#6. The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.
Javad Alizadeh
#7. Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
Marshall McLuhan
#8. We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.
Kip Thorne
#9. 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
#10. The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.
Yuval Ne'eman
#11. Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble
Robert Graves
#13. You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~
Lee Strobel
#14. General relativity then establishes that objects move toward regions where time elapses more slowly; in a sense, all objects "want" to age as slowly as possible. From an Einsteinian perspective, that explains why an object falls when you let go of it.
Brian Greene
#15. Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.
Toba Beta
#16. Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#17. I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.
Steven Wright
#18. Time's relativity
is considered and abandoned,
for the more revelatory
experiences of starlight
in strands, and pearly
floors that span as far as
absolute compassion...
Kristen Henderson
#19. Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.
Kip Thorne
#20. I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
Insightful, p.194
Andrea Cremer
#21. 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
#23. Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.
Aswath Damodaran
#24. A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
Bill Gaede
#25. The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Piet Mondrian
#26. Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
Albert Einstein
#27. Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
Albert Einstein
#28. Special relativity declares a similar law for all motion: the combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.
Brian Greene
#29. Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth.
Stephen Hawking
#30. You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
Tom Robbins
#31. Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and imagine nothing so barbarous or savage but what is contrary to the manners of their own time.
Anthony Ashley Cooper III
#32. The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
Steve Toltz
#33. 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
#34. To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you've lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
Lee Smolin
#36. 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
#37. Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?
Stephen Hawking
#38. I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.
Kip Thorne
#40. There was a young lady of Wight Who travelled much faster than light. She departed one day, In a relative way, And arrived on the previous night. The point is that the theory of relativity says that there is no unique measure of time that all observers will agree on.
Stephen Hawking
#41. Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.
Kate Atkinson
#43. Changes is the mother of time.
Absence of changes makes no time.
Toba Beta
#44. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
Alix Kates Shulman
#45. Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.
Seth Mnookin
