“Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relatively principle into physics, you and others now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.” -Albert Einstein, 1908

What puny grasp I have on relativity does not lend itself well to writing any kind of comprehensible review. This in spite of the fact that Einstein went to considerable effort to make this book accessible to non-physicists. If you need a visual of my inadequacy, picture Penny attempting to review a scientific paper on Super-Asymmetry authored by Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler. It’s almost that bad.

“The principle of relativity can generally be phrased as: The laws of nature perceived by an observer are independent of his state of motion . . . by combining the principle of relativity with the results of the constancy of light in a vacuum, one arrives by a purely deductive manner at what is called today relativity theory.” -A.E., 1914