Lee Smolin Quotes
There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.
Lee Smolin
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
Barbara Palvin
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
Pankaj Mishra
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi
I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
Victoria Aveyard
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
Daniel Craig
The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
Dan Hill
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
Carine Roitfeld
I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
Kaley Cuoco
Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
Jack Dunphy
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
Gary Locke
Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
D'Angelo
In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
Alex Pareene
Living in your genome is the history of our species.
Barry Schuler
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
Clive Granger
I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.
Eva Green
You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.
Kristen Stewart
There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.
Lee Smolin