Brian Greene Quotes
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We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.
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Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
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I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
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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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I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
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There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.
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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
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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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Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
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Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
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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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You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.
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Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
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The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
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We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
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Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
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The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
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My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.
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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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For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
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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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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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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.