"On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge."

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Source : Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lee Smolin

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“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”
“Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.”
“I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.”
“Only two things can stop Tiger â€”Â injury or a bad marriage.”

Source : "His Ownself". www.golfdigest.com. December 12, 2011.
“I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.”
“For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.”
“I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.”
“Everyone learns in a crisis.”

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