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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 slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
- When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
- I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
- Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
- Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
- The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
- In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the…
- Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions…
- Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away,…
- Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is,…
- Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's…
- Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
- String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced…
- String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to…
- When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
- When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark…
- 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…
- Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
- As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to…
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