Spacetime Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Spacetime.
Top Quotes
“Albert Einstein”
“Hermann Minkowski”
“General relativity”
“Theory of relativity”
“In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.”
“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
“This picture would explain why we haven't been over run by tourists from the future.”
“Wikipedia: Spacetime”
“In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”
“Hermann Weyl, Space—Time—Matter (1922)”
“James Hopwood Jeans, The Growth of Physical Science (1947)”
“Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1920)”
“"Imagination is creativity playing outside the realms of intelligence or knowledge. Imagination entangles within the quantum brain of the world and self." *”
“Minkowski, building on Einstein's work, had now discovered that the Universe is made of a four-dimensional "spacetime" fabric that is absolute, not relative.”
“[By moving] I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime"… "Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum.”
“Time exists not by itself; but simply from the things which happen, the sense apprehends what has been done in time past, as well as what is present, and what is to follow after.”
“William Kingdon Clifford, Richard Charles Rowe & Karl Pearson, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885)”
“Space-time is curved in the neighborhood of material masses, but it is not clear whether the presence of matter causes the curvature of space-time or whether this curvature is itself responsible for the existence of matter.”
“In Newton's system of mechanics... there is an absolute space and an absolute time. In Einstein's theory time and space are interwoven, and the way in which they are interwoven depends on the observer. Instead of three plus one we have four dimensions.”