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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Brian Greene

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
BRIAN GREENE

Answers Science
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Home Order Real
I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
BRIAN GREENE

Clutter Stand Stuff
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Convert Fall Light Space Spread
If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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God OK Out Someone Word
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Play Score Strings Vibration
I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE

Children Eye Light
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
BRIAN GREENE

Currency Energy Ultimate
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Age Dream Light
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating
So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars… it just feels like there’s a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we’re familiar with.
BRIAN GREENE

Chance Earth Good Stars Support
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
BRIAN GREENE

Letters Mail Numbers
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Black Giving Thinking
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 GREENE

Analysis Down Life Pondering Real
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
BRIAN GREENE

Ideas Mind Way
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
BRIAN GREENE

Answers Asking May

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