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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Brian Greene

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.
BRIAN GREENE

Long Respectable Theory
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
…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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Notice Universe Way
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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Clutter Stand Stuff
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
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Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Giving Mathematics Physics
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 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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Home Order Real
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
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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Goal Journey Looks
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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Heaven Specks Views
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Mathematics Science
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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Mind Reality Tuition
We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let’s go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It’s hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.
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Dimensions Ideas Imagine
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
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Confusion Emotional Perspective
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
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Needs Should States

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