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.
BRIAN GREENEIf someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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Every 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.
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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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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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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 enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
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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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Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That’s the new idea.
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