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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.

Brian Greene

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
BRIAN GREENE

Giving Mathematics Physics
I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing.
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Home Order Real
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
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Analysis Down Life Pondering Real
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
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
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
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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Confusion Emotional Perspective
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 boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Answers Asking May
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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Challenges Space Thinking
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
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
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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Age Diamond Sky Space
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 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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Clutter Stand Stuff
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

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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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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