Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
Brian GreeneOftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
Brian GreeneSometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian GreeneString theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
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