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Quotes from Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe — Lee Smolin

born 1955 United States

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We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)

I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)

Thinking in time is not relativism but a form of relationalism... the truest description of something consists of specifying its relationships to other parts of the system it is part of.

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)

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 essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)

If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lee Smolin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.