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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.

Brian Greene

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
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
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
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
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
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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Art Feels Humans
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
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
If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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God OK Out Someone Word
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
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
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
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
…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
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
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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Believe Political Religious

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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