Lee Smolin Quotes
The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
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One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.They've great big parties inside the grounds.'I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds',Says Alice.
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
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I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere
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Attractions are proportional to destinies.
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Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem
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Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.
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Winning streaks are impressive because it's a model of consistency. Streaks mean you haven't let your guard down and you've taken care of business when everyone knows what a difficult task that is.
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The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.
