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 GREENEI enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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…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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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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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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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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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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.
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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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Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
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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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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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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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