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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Brian Greene

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
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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Development Modern People
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Creation Stories Wonder
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
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
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.
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Claim Dimensions Three
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity.
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Ideas Issues Real
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
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
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
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
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Choices Law Real
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
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
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
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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Believe Mechanic Together
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

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