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.
BRIAN GREENEYou should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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…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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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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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’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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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 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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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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The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it’s correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.
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