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Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

Brian Greene

In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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Convert Fall Light Space Spread
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
…things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren’t, we wouldn’t be here to notice.
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Notice Universe Way
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
There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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Ideas Scientist Way
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Mathematics 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
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
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Book Different Writing
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline’s mass into energy, in accord with Einstein’s formula.
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Car Doe Energy
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
If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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Dark Opponent Physical Wrestling

Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

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Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

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