“When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even tem...” — Lee Smolin Quote

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.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.