Max Tegmark Quotes

• All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

  Max Tegmark

  School, Past, Museums

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.509, Vintage

  51 Copy quote

• Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

  Max Tegmark

  Reality, Structure, Mathematical

  "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality". Book by Max Tegmark, January 7, 2014.

  18 Copy quote

• I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

  Max Tegmark

  Believe, Information, Way

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.500, Vintage

  21 Copy quote

• In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

  Max Tegmark

  Space, Events, Infinite

  "Parallel Universes". Scientific American magazine. Volume 288, Issue 5, May 2003.

  20 Copy quote

• The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask

  Max Tegmark

  Inspirational, Answers, Hallmark

  13 Copy quote

• This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.

  Max Tegmark

  Moon, Technology, Self

  11 Copy quote

• If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

  Max Tegmark

  Hands, Car, Tickets

  "What is Reality?". BBC Horizons, January 17, 2011.

  16 Copy quote

• There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

  Max Tegmark

  Convincing Yourself, Trying, Guarantees

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.29, Vintage

  17 Copy quote

• The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."

  Max Tegmark

  Strong, Views, Leader

  10 Copy quote

• In 2056, I think you'll be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universe.

  Max Tegmark

  Thinking, Law, Able

  15 Copy quote

• So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

  Max Tegmark

  Believe, Humble, Thinking

  "Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology". John Templeton Foundation Intreview, capabilities.templeton.org. 2006.

  11 Copy quote

• If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

  Max Tegmark

  Past, Reality, Dvds

  12 Copy quote

• For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

  Max Tegmark

  Superhero, Lasts, Physics

  14 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin