Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes

• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

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• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

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  Thinking, Ecstatic

  "Surfing the Universe". Interview with Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

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  People, Want, Good Things

  "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

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  Guy, Academia, Physics

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• Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

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  Math, Doe, World

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• My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

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  Father, Thinking, Path

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• Science is our last and greatest frontier.

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  Lasts, Frontiers

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• Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

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  Ninety, Cents, My Time

  "Surfing the Universe" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

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  Physics, Geometry, Interaction

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• Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

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  Beautiful, Animal, Unusual

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• I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

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  Fall, Mind, Capacity

  "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

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  Fun, Surfing, Planets

  "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.

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• The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

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  Beautiful, Simple, Make Sense

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• Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

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  Want, Feels, Deep Down

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• It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

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  Girlfriend, Sleep, Secret

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• My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

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  Playing Outside, Geek, Scientist

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

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  Gravity, Found, Theory

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