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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an
hour. Sit with a read more
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.
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.
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.
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.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential read more
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.
Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.
I don't believe in mathematics.
I don't believe in mathematics.
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.
