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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.

Brian Greene

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 enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Enjoy Not Interested Reading
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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Bread Extra Space Universe
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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Answers Science
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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Needs Should States
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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Age Dream Light
I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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Journey Long Thinking
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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Believe Mechanic Together
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
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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Dark Opponent Physical Wrestling
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
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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Home Order Real
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
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Challenges Space Thinking
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Creation Stories Wonder
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

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