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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Brian Greene

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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Age Dream Light
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
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
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
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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Adventure Stories Years
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
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Enjoy Not Interested Reading
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
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
Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality
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Mind Reality Tuition
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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Convert Fall Light Space Spread
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
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
So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars… it just feels like there’s a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we’re familiar with.
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Chance Earth Good Stars Support
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
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Bread Extra Space Universe
…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

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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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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