# Quote — Lee Smolin, Time Reborn

> To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.

- 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/to-be-human

## 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)