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…"

"e've repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also the power of our human mind to understand it."

"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…"

"the . Here we interpret the wavefunction for an object as describing not some funky imaginary ensemble of possibilities for what the object might be doing, but rather the actual spatial collection of …"

"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."

"... I would rather have questions that I can't answer than answers that I can't question."