I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
BRIAN GREENEI 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.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline’s mass into energy, in accord with Einstein’s formula.
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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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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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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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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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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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That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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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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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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