Lee Smolin Quotes

We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Career
  • You
  • Analyzing

• I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • You
  • Makeup

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Stop
  • Passion

• The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • School
  • Think
  • Style

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

  

  Fred Armisen

• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

  

  John Holmes
  • Remember
  • Universe

• To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Light
  • Greatness

• Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

  

  Nick Stone
  • Light
  • Happen
  • Onion

• We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Small
  • Light
  • Universe