There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning. - Lee Smolin

There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.

We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.

While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.