Max Tegmark

Quotes

• “My guess is that we’ll one day understand consciousness as yet another phase of matter. I’d expect there to be many types of consciousness just as there are many types of liquids, but in both cases, they share certain characteristic traits that we can aim to understand.”

• “... I would rather have questions that I can’t answer than answers that I can’t question.”

• “Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.”

• “We’re all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us. ...[M]y main responsibility as a teacher isn’t to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions.”

• “There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible...”

Books by Max Tegmark in order

Books by Max Tegmark in the order they were published, from Improved Limits on Gamma-ray Burst Repetition from BATSE (1996) to Life 3.0 (2017).

1. 1Improved Limits on Gamma-ray Burst Repetition from BATSEImproved Limits on Gamma-ray Burst Repetition from BATSE1996
2. 2The Angular Power Spectrum of BATSE 3B Gamma-ray BurstsThe Angular Power Spectrum of BATSE 3B Gamma-ray Bursts1996
3. 3Microwave ForegroundsMicrowave Foregrounds1999
4. 4Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality2014
5. 5Life 3.0Life 3.02017