To tell you the truth, I’ve never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it’s hard to say.
BRIAN GREENEI like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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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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For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future.
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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.
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