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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.

Brian Greene

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915,
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Heart Long Support
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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Long Respectable Theory
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
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
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
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
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.
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Real Space Thinking
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
But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.
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Holy Rather Something Testable Understand
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
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
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
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
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
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating

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