42 Quotes by Lee Smolin

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

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 by the weight of public evidence.

There is nothing outside the universe

We know no more than we did in 1975 - and that's not good