When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only
a minute. But when you read more

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only
a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you
think it's two hours. That's relativity.

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of read more

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and read more

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.