Brian Greene - Modern Quotes

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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules and brush the edge of acceptability in the search for solutions. Mathematicians are more like classical composers, typically working within a much tighter framework, reluctant to go to the next step until all previous ones have been established with due rigor. Each approach has its advantages as well as drawbacks; each provides a unique outlet for creative discovery. Like modern and classical music, it's not that one approach is right and the other wrong – the methods one chooses to use are largely a matter of taste and training.

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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

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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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It took the brashness of a Newton to plant the flag of modern scientific inquiry and never turn back.

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