Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
BRIAN GREENEWriting 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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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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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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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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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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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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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