Lee Smolin Quotes

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• One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
• Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it…
• On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came…
• Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its…
• Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe…
• Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them…
• There is nothing outside the universe
• We know no more than we did in 1975 - and that's not good
• A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle…
• It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything…
• The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that…
• But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be…
• Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.
• Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string…
• We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.
• How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
• General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
• When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are…

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