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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Even Great Long Respectable Still Theory

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Bangs Being Big Creating Each Expanse Happened Locations Many May Only Our Own Result Spatial Those Universe Various

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Actor Bigger Book Different Dramatic Elements First Material Out Person Presentation Pulling Stage Third Want Way Work Write Writing You

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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Am Blogs Enjoy Having Interested Not Interested Out Reading Thoughts

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I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

~Brian Greene

Topics: About Bang Big Big Bang Black Black Holes Children Eyes Holes Light Seen Tell Them Up

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Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Environmental Features Fundamental Influences Intertwined Laws Nature Nurture Patterns Physical Reflect Sometimes Two Version Versus

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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Accord Burns Car Does Drive Einstein Energy Engine Form Formula Gasoline Mass Motion Produce Some Work You Your

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Been Eye Few Naked See Streaming Thousand Toward Us Years

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Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Before Calculate Discovery Framework Hence How Later Laws Me Mechanics Now Physics Predict Quantum Quantum Mechanics Tell Then Things Use Will You I Can

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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

~Brian Greene

Topics: About Certain Cosmos Deep Era Exploration Human Human Spirit Living Privileged Reach Remarkably Spirit Still Through Truths Within

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 9th, 1963

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