# Quote — Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

> The geometry of space changes when things in the universe change their relationships to one another.

- Author: [Lee Smolin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin.md)
- Book: [Three Roads to Quantum Gravity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity/the-geometry-of-space

## More from this book

> Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity/time-is-described.md)

> There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity/there-is-no-time.md)

> We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity/we-are-the.md)