Relativity quotes

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◆ Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

- Albert Einstein100

◆ In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

- Yahoo Serious99

◆ In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

- Edward Witten99

◆ The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

- Jiang Zemin99

◆ The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

- Robert Nozick99

◆ Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

- Toba Beta99

◆ There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

- Toba Beta99

◆ The source of all light is in the eye.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ 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 Adams99

◆ 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 Rowling99

◆ Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

- Jean Cocteau99

◆ An erection is like the theory of relativity. The more you think about it. The harder it gets.

- 99

◆ Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.

- Elsa Einstein99