How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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More Brian Greene Quotes
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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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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I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, ‘Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.’ And she turned to me and said, ‘Daddy, universe or multiverse?’
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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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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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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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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
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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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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.
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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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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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