Max Tegmark

"Aristarchos of Samos... was able to use to figure out... the distance between the Earth and the Sun. His conclusion... the Sun was about twenty times farther... than the Moon and therefore twenty time…"

"t's... a big mistake as a species if we don't create institutions and governments which support science. There have been a number of... economic studies that have shown... that investing in basic scie…"

"My favorite movie of all time is... Life of Brian. We really should try and reenact this epic skit, "What have the Romans ever done for us?" by saying "What has physics ever done for us? ...But ...bes…"

"Let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter but information specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a b…"

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."

"time is not an illusion, but the flow of time is. So is change. In spacetime, the future exists and the past doesn’t disappear."

"Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks . A cavewoman thinking too hard ab…"

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