There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room … - Brian Greene

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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Brian Greene

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules. . . Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

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The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

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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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Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

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