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Brian Greene

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
I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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Character Irreverent Shows
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
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
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Bread Extra Space Universe
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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Labyrinth Law Twists
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
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
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Letters Mail Numbers
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
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
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
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Mathematics Science
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
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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Currency Energy Ultimate
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
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
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
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
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Analysis Down Life Pondering Real
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
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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Development Modern People
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Enjoy Not Interested Reading
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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Age Dream Light
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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Believe Political Religious
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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Dark Opponent Physical Wrestling
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
And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that’s been the big challenge and that’s why we have been excited about string theory, as it’s one of the only approaches that can put it together.
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About Big General Place String Universe
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915,
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Heart Long Support
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Confusion Process Understanding

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