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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.

Adam Frank

The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.
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The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely – I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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I’m found of what’s called emergence – as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution – there’s things that you just aren’t able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.
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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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So they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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There’s a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used.
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It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that’s what Scott and the writers did – they weren’t trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas
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It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole.
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Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”
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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve also become sensitive to the ways – to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?
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