16 Quotes by Marcelo Gleiser

One can’t build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can’t build models without concepts and laws.

There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.

Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

We explain the world the way we think about it. There's no way out of our minds.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

Só aqueles que buscam obstinadamente a verdade sabem dos tormentos que enfrentam no caminho... e merecem gozar a glória do triunfo.

Apenas aqueles que passaram longos anos buscando a verdade, imersos na escuridão da ignorância, podem compreender o júbilo transcendente da descoberta.