When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot read more

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through read more

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has read more

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and
so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think
that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him read more

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.

Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful read more

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past
centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no read more

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence
from matter.