Lee Smolin Quotes
Quantum theory can be described as a new kind of language to be used in a dialogue between us and the systems we study with our instruments. ...It tells us nothing about what the world would be like in our absence.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
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I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.
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We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
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Quantum theory can be described as a new kind of language to be used in a dialogue between us and the systems we study with our instruments. ...It tells us nothing about what the world would be like in our absence.
