“Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.”— Hermann Minkowski
“A point of space at a point of time, that is, a system of values x, y, z, t, I will call a world-point.”— Hermann Minkowski
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”— Charles Samuel Addams
“It's all a matter of perspective. What one person deems a tragedy, another might call a victory.”— Terry Brooks
“The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends on how everybody is doing everything.”— Yul Brynner
“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”— Gustave Courbet
“What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty.”— Paul Dirac
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”— Alexandre Dumas