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The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
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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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The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.
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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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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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I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
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Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
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