# Quote — Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

> The relational picture of space and time has implications that are as radical as those of natural selection, not only for science but for our perspective on who we are and how we came to exist in this evolving universe of relations.

- 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)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Three_Roads_to_Quantum_Gravity_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/three-roads-to-quantum-gravity/the-relational-picture

## 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)