That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe.
BRIAN GREENEI 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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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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I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.
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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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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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…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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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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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The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it’s correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.
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