--- title: "2 Dark energy Quotes By Max Tegmark" description: "2 Dark energy quotes by Max Tegmark. Plus more from Max Tegmark and more Dark energy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/max-tegmark-3860_big-bang_how-could-space-not-be-infinite-how-coul_902665.jpg" --- > [“How could space not be infinite? How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? What’s our Universe expanding into? Where in space did our Big Bang explosion happen? Did our Big Bang happen at a single point?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/how-could-space-not-be-infinite-how-could-an-infinite-space-get/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/max-tegmark-3860_big-bang_how-could-space-not-be-infinite-how-coul_902665.jpg) > [“Figure 4.1: Both dark matter and dark energy are invisible, which means that they refuse to interact with light and other electromagnetic phenomena. We know of their existence only through their gravitational effects.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/figure-4-1-both-dark-matter-and-dark-energy-are-invisible-which-means/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/176/max-tegmark-3860_dark_figure-4-1-both-dark-matter-and-dark-ene_2596116.jpg) ## Other authors on Dark energy - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-degrasse-tyson-70683.jpg) Neil deGrasse Tyson 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-energy/neil-degrasse-tyson/) - [Adam Riess 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-energy/adam-riess/) ## More by Max Tegmark > [“My personal analysis is that the media have made the AI-safety debate seem more controversial than it really is. After all, fear sells, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/my-personal-analysis-is-that-the-media-have-made-the-ai-safety-debate/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/chapter-2-how-could-an-infinite-space-get-created-in-a-finite-time-it/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve written for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/i-suspect-that-if-we-can-build-such-ultra-intelligent-machines-then/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“Aristarchos simply divided it by 3.7 and got the size of the Moon!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/aristarchos-simply-divided-it-by-3-7-and-got-the-size-of-the-moon/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“I view the measure problem as the greatest crisis in physics today.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/i-view-the-measure-problem-as-the-greatest-crisis-in-physics-today/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/the-whole-can-contain-less-information-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-and/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/in-theory-theory-and-practice-are-the-same-in-practice-they-are-not/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/why-do-we-perceive-the-world-as-stable-and-ourselves-as-local-and/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/the-neuron-bundle-comes-from-our-eyes-ears-nose-mouth-or-skin-the-key/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it subjectively feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/in-other-words-even-though-an-observer-moment-objectively-occupies/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning (the study…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/neural-networks-have-now-transformed-both-biological-and-artificial/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/physics-is-the-ultimate-intellectual-adventure-the-quest-to/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/our-external-physical-reality-is-a-mathematical-structure/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“it can start with something smaller than an atom and create an infinite space inside of it, containing infinitely many galaxies, without affecting the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/it-can-start-with-something-smaller-than-an-atom-and-create-an/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) > [“A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann on steroids: lacking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-tegmark/a-perfectly-obedient-superintelligence-whose-goals-automatically/) [Max Tegmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-tegmark/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-energy/max-tegmark/#itemlist", "name": "2 Dark energy Quotes By Max Tegmark", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How could space not be infinite? 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