“Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.” — Lee Smolin Quote

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

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

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

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.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write things that might be controversial. I've wasted a lot of time worrying about it: am I tough enough to do it? Well, I guess, or I wouldn't have done it. The day it's too difficult for me, I guess I'll stop.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.