The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
BRIAN GREENEEvery 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
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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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I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing.
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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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In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let’s go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It’s hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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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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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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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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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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