"Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident……" — Brian Greene
"Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality"
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121 Quotes by Brian Greene
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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of…
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So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and…
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics…
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A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de…
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The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy…
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated…
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I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot…
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what…
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of…
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
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I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And…
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More Comparison Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
— Erykah Badu
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale…
— Bob Barr
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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