# Quote — Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

> There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. ...Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. ...If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.

- 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/there-is-no-meaning

## 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)