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 GREENEI’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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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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I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, ‘Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.’ And she turned to me and said, ‘Daddy, universe or multiverse?’
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It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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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 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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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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The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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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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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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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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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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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline’s mass into energy, in accord with Einstein’s formula.
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