Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

- Lee Smolin

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

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

- Lee Smolin

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 an…

- Lee Smolin

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 h…

- Lee Smolin

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 res…

- Lee Smolin

The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory…

- Lee Smolin

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that …

- Lee Smolin

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 t…

- Lee Smolin