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  • Even though she was a teenager and had been for four years, Jamie didn't know the first thing about teenagers, and trying to understand teenage boys for her was like trying to decipher the theory of relativity.†  (source)
  • And so she chattered easily and knowledgeably about things of interest to students—this new theory of relativity by a man called Einstein, and whether Admiral Peary would really reach the North Pole.†  (source)
  • You were thinking about Einstein's theory of relativity" Sometimes she can be funny.†  (source)
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  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†  (source)
  • For God's sake, tell them that I can reconcile Newtonian mechanics with the theory of relativity.†  (source)
  • According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in.†  (source)
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN published his general theory of relativity in 1916, profoundly affecting the study of physics and cosmology for years.†  (source)
  • You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.†  (source)
  • Something like a theory of relativity governing the hippodrome of life occurred to him, but he became confused and gave up his analogies.†  (source)
  • She hunted them grimly; she faced them with wide-eyed admiration and spoke of her own insignificance, of her humility before achievement; she shrugged, tight-lipped and rancorous, whenever one of them did not seem to take sufficient account of her own views on life after death, the theory of relativity, Aztec architecture, birth control and the movies.†  (source)
  • Comrades, revolutionary youths, revolutionary faculty and staff, we must clearly understand the reactionary nature of Einstein's theory of relativity.†  (source)
  • The basis of the foundation-shattering Theory of Relativity was as yet understood only by very few, of whom Poincaré, as the most eminent mathematician of his time, was one.†  (source)
  • The theory of relativity convinced physicists that matter and energy are transmutable.†
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