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• My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Jesus, Kings, Believe

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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• 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

  Space, People, Matter

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• When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Discovery, Events

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• Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Matter

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.376, Princeton University Press

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• The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.

  Ruth Benedict

  Science, Events, Negative

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.385, Transaction Publishers

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• It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Views, Development, Safe

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1937). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• 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

  Travel, Space, Rockets

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• 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

  Space, Three, Showing Up

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• Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

  Mark Haddon

  Speaks French, Understanding, Difficult

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.56, Random House

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• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  Albert Einstein

  Fun, Business, Ethics And Morals

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• Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Abstract

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.155, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Example, Needs

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• Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Theory

  "Saltz: MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively". www.vulture.com. January 6, 2013.

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• Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Special, Bangs

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• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  A. N. Wilson

  World, Physics, Theory

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• The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

  Leigh Page

  Science, Age, Ears

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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.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Science, Theory

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• I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Common Sense, Way

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.2, Basic Books

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• At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

  Albert Einstein

  Arguing, Theory, Waiter

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

  Leonard Susskind

  Reality, Special, Different

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• Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Understanding, Tasks

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• [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Thinking, Path

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• 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

  Special, Acting, Body

  Letter to the Michelson Commemorative Meeting of the Cleveland Physics Society, 1952.

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• Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophical, Theory, Given

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.375, Princeton University Press

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