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.
BRIAN GREENEYou 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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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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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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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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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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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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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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Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
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Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
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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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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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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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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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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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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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