The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time Quotes

“there is nothing real or true that is timeless”
― Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy

“The road back to reality, we suggest, begins by making two affirmations about nature: the uniqueness of the universe and the reality of time. These together have an immediate consequence which is the central hypothesis of our program: that the laws of nature evolve, and they do so through mechanisms that can be discovered and probed experimentally because they concern the past.”
― Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy

“the relation of mathematics to the world of temporal change and of phenomenal particularity is direct: less by induction than by what Pierce called abduction – an imaginative jumping off from an open-ended series of particulars.”
― Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy