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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.

Brian Greene

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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Ideas Mind Way
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding
I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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Children Eye Light
There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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Ideas Scientist Way
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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Challenges Space Thinking
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.
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Age Diamond Sky Space
But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.
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Holy Rather Something Testable Understand
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
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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Daddy Matter Sugar
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
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
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Believe Mechanic Together
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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Bigs Dimensions Eye
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Answers Asking May
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
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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Black Giving Thinking
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

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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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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