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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings. Brian Greene

Science Our Ourselves Thousands Thousands Of Years Adventure Sought Understand Greatest Been Years Surroundings Unfolding Stories

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students. Brian Greene

School First Relativity High High School High School Students General General Relativity Physicists Students Advanced Put Most Math Very Unfamiliar Teach Forward Now

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable. Brian Greene

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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think we're hot on the trail. Brian Greene

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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding. Brian Greene

The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable. Brian Greene

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My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe. Brian Greene

Education Today Science School College Finished Universe Minimal Musician High Composer High School Rather Never Had He His Questions Graduates Formal Formal Education Interest Standards Deep Dad

The events leading to the discovery of tunnelling supercurrents took place while I was working as a research student at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Brian Pippard. Brian Josephson

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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny. C. V. Raman

Victory Will Entitled Nothing Our Sun Destiny Rightful Recognize Carry Spirit Civilization Arise Indomitable Proud Were Achieving Hold Place Which Us Planet Need

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was. C. V. Raman

Me Class Old First Addressing Inquire Had He Attended Him Answer How Affirmative Junior Then Asked Really English Belonged

When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth. C. V. Raman

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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government. C. V. Raman

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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes. C. V. Raman

Decision Brilliant Aid Took February Mercury Towards Obtained End Commercially Tubes Available Sealed Using Illumination

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces. C. V. Raman

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference. C. V. Raman

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta. C. V. Raman

Work Great Me Opportunities Will First Research Early Work Great City Has-Been City Entirely Date Soon Scientific Due Been Years Provided Did Aspirations Publication Suffer Early Extinction

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly. C. V. Raman

Science Made Early Years Late Possible Indian Scientific Continue Cultivation Years Burning Aspirations Who Brightly Founding Dr Early Association

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher. Carlo Rubbia

Teacher School Mother Engineer Father Local Telephone Born Small Small Town School Teacher Town Italy Electrical Company Elementary Elementary School March

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