Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin
Lee Smolinis an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
CountryUnited States of America
Lee Smolin quotes about
problem good-science
Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.
effectiveness words-of-wisdom world
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 to mathematical principles.
possibility organize universe
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
beings creating holds human hypothesis nature truth whose
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.
determines future human
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.