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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.

Brian Greene

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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Development Modern People
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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Daughter Love More Motivation
I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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Journey Long Thinking
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Enjoy Not Interested Reading
I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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Every Day Mesh Strings
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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Age Dream Light
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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Claim Dimensions Three
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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Dark Opponent Physical Wrestling
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Creation Stories Wonder
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Mathematics Science
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Hard Passion Teaching
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
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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Another Predict Probabilities The Likelihood
Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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Cosmos Eternity Instead Quieter
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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Long Respectable Theory

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 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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