Lee Smolin Quotes

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.

Lee Smolin

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LightIdeasSpeedDownGravityBeen

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Jim Davis

LiveCourageCatsPetDeepDown

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

John Higgins

MoneyBigAwayGotGetIdea

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Tom Wolfe

PowerMeAmericanPromotionSerious

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Robert Byrd

WarThinkHumanExperiencesHorrible

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

AgeWallsInformationBordersModern

All the stories in 'The UnAmericans' required interviews, travel, hours and hours in the archives. All of that stuff is so important in the beginning, but I reach a point where I have to shuck it away.

Molly Antopol

BeginningTravelReachImportant

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

Janet Varney

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I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.

Joseph Brodsky

PracticePoliticalPhilosophyFirst

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Dorothea Lange

EyesWordsPeopleYouVocabulary

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

Deepak Chopra

UniverseSillyYouThings HappenTry

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

Colin Camerer

FamilyTreeYouMoreYearsGenes

Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

Brian J. Smith

NatureMindMeIdeasDeepQuestions

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