Albert Einstein Quotes About Relativity
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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You never fail until you stop trying.
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
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When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
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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.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
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It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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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.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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