Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
BRIAN GREENEI enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.
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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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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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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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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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…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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Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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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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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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