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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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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
Actor
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Theoretical Physicist
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Brian Randolph Greene
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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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But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
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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.
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When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
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Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
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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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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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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
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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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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
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I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
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Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
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Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
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So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.
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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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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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.
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