24 Quotes by Max Tegmark

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.”

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

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

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

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.

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.