So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars… it just feels like there’s a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we’re familiar with.
BRIAN GREENEIt’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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…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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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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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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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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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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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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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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It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
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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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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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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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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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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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