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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

Brian Greene

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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Bigs Dimensions Eye
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
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
I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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Every Day Mesh Strings
I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, ‘Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.’ And she turned to me and said, ‘Daddy, universe or multiverse?’
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Daughter Love More Motivation
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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Ideas Mind Way
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
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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Real Space Thinking
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Answers Asking May
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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Black Giving Thinking
…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
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
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Letters Mail Numbers
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
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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Long Respectable Theory

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

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