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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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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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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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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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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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