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The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Brian Greene

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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Art Feels Humans
The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it’s correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.
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Play Score Strings Vibration
I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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Character Irreverent Shows
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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Needs Opposites Way
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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Children Eye Light
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity.
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Ideas Issues Real
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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Heaven Specks Views
Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That’s the new idea.
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Another Predict Probabilities The Likelihood
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Creation Stories Wonder
We’re on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.
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Moments Thinking Want
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
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Needs Should States
Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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Cosmos Eternity Instead Quieter

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