Lee Smolin quotes - page 3

We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control. (Lee Smolin)
To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences. View quote
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It is absurd in general relativity to speak of a universe in which nothing happens. View quote
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning. View quote
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There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history. View quote
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There is no fixed, eternal frame to the universe to define what may or may not exist. View quote
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We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them. View quote
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