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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.

Brian Greene

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
I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.
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Goal Journey Looks
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
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
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Answers Asking May
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
…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
I 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.
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Believe Political Religious
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that’s been the big challenge and that’s why we have been excited about string theory, as it’s one of the only approaches that can put it together.
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About Big General Place String Universe
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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Labyrinth Law Twists
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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Clutter Stand Stuff
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
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
I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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Character Irreverent Shows
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.
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Age Diamond Sky Space

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