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.
BRIAN GREENEWhen I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity.
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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 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 beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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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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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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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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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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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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 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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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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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