How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
BRIAN GREENESometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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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 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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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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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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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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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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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Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality
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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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I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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