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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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Brian Randolph Greene
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When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
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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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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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