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.
BRIAN GREENEThere’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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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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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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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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
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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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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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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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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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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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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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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