“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.”
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
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American cosmologist 1955Related quotes
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
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Niebuhr's preferred form, as declared by his widow
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
Variant: God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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