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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.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Way, Scientist

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• There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

  Brian Greene

  Creating, Bangs, May

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

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  Daddy, Sugar, Matter

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos”, p.311, Vintage

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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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  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

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  Light, Hands, Talking

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• We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

  Brian Greene

  Cat, Brain, Able

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

  Brian Greene

  Pathways, Care, Realizing

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.162, Vintage

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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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  Science, Avant Garde, Mathematics

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• Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

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  Nature, Motivation, Inspiration

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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.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

  Brian Greene

  Past, Illusion, Said

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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?

  Brian Greene

  Stories, Wonder, Creation

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.14, Vintage

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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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  Eye, Dimensions, Bigs

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• Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

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  Stars, Distance, Water

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• We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Two, Might

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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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  Art, Feels, Humans

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

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  Animal, Practice, People

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• I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

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  Years, Support, Theory

  "A Conversation With Brian Greene". NOVA PBS, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• 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

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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• The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. 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.

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Musical, Would Be

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

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  Passion, Teach, Hard

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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.

  Brian Greene

  Way, Ifs, Universe

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.368, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

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  Adventure, Years, Stories

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• The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

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  Creativity, Men, Inspire

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• Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Answers, Sometimes

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.365, Random House

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