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“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.”

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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark is a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, born on May 5, 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Tegmark is known for his research in cosmology, cosmic strings, and cosmological principles. more

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