# Quote — Lee Smolin, Time Reborn

> Thinking in time is not relativism but a form of relationalism... the truest description of something consists of specifying its relationships to other parts of the system it is part of.

- Author: [Lee Smolin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin.md)
- Book: [Time Reborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/time-reborn.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Time_Reborn:_From_the_Crisis_in_Physics_to_the_Future_of_the_Universe_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/time-reborn/thinking-in-time

## More from this book

> Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/time-reborn/having-begun-my-life.md)

> If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/time-reborn/if-we-believe.md)

> I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lee-smolin/time-reborn/i-propose-that.md)