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Top 25 Lee Smolin Quotes (2025 Update)

Lee Smolin Quote: “There is nothing outside the universe.”

1. “There is nothing outside the universe.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”

2. “One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 directly.”

3. “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 directly.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers.”

4. “When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.”

6. “Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 might just be wrong.”

8. “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 might just be wrong.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.”

9. “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 can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.”

10. “But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The tendency of a group of human beings to quickly come to believe something that its individual members will later see as obviously false is truly amazing. Some of the worst tragedies of the last century happened because well-meaning people fell for easy solutions proposed by bad leaders.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.”

11. “Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.”

12. “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 that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.”

13. “Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.”

14. “Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 organised to mathematical principles.”

15. “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 organised to mathematical principles.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.”

16. “Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “The search for the meaning of temperature and entropy of matter led to the discovery of atoms. The search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of radiation led to the discovery of quanta. In just the same way, the search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of a black hole is now leading to the discovery of the atomic structure of space and time.”

17. “The search for the meaning of temperature and entropy of matter led to the discovery of atoms. The search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of radiation led to the discovery of quanta. In just the same way, the search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of a black hole is now leading to the discovery of the atomic structure of space and time.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of great progress over the century, they remain incomplete. Each has defects that point to a deeper theory. But the main reason each is incomplete is the existence of the other.”

18. “These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of great progress over the century, they remain incomplete. Each has defects that point to a deeper theory. But the main reason each is incomplete is the existence of the other.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.”

19. “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 else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.”

20. “Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the wavelengths of light are stretched as the light climbs up to us. This means that jf we can observe light coming from very close to the horizon of a black hole, we may be able to see the quantum structure of space itself.”

21. “Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the wavelengths of light are stretched as the light climbs up to us. This means that jf we can observe light coming from very close to the horizon of a black hole, we may be able to see the quantum structure of space itself.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “We know no more than we did in 1975 – and that’s not good.”

22. “We know no more than we did in 1975 – and that’s not good.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Leibniz had a vision of a world in which everything lives not in space but immersed in a network of relationships.”

23. “Leibniz had a vision of a world in which everything lives not in space but immersed in a network of relationships.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “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 while he was on the Bay Bridge.”

24. “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 while he was on the Bay Bridge.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “Without having navigated waters shallow enough for us to see bottom, we’ll be easy prey to mystifiers who want to sell us radical metaphysical fantasies in the guise of science.”

25. “Without having navigated waters shallow enough for us to see bottom, we’ll be easy prey to mystifiers who want to sell us radical metaphysical fantasies in the guise of science.”

Lee Smolin Quote: “To understand what we mean when we say that space is discrete, we must put our minds completely into the relational way of thinking, and really try to see and feel the world around us as nothing but a network of evolving relationships. These relationships are not among things situated in space – they are among the events that make up the history of the world. The relationships define the space, not the other way around.”

26. “To understand what we mean when we say that space is discrete, we must put our minds completely into the relational way of thinking, and really try to see and feel the world around us as nothing but a network of evolving relationships. These relationships are not among things situated in space – they are among the events that make up the history of the world. The relationships define the space, not the other way around.”

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