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If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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Brian Randolph Greene
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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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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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I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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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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