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Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

Lee Smolin

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Lee Smolin
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 6
Astronomer
Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
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