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Book: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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  1. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    …The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
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  2. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions.
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  3. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    Experience informs intuition. But it does more than that: Experience sets the frame within which we analyze and interpret what we perceive. You would no doubt expect, for instance, that the "wild child" raised by a pack of wolves would interpret the world from a perspective that differs substantially from your own. Even less extreme comparisons, such as those between people raised in very different cultural traditions, serve to underscore the degree to which our experiences determine our interpretive mindset.
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  4. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting -- bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest -- the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies.
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  5. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    ...quantum mechanics-the physics of our world-requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
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  6. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    ...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
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  7. Brian Greene _ The Elegant Universe:

    The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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