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[Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista Tippett – 2021 Conversation

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Nobility of Being Mind, Matter and Meaning

The nobility of being is the idea that we human beings who are fully governed by the laws of physics. We can look out into the universe and recognize that our presence is extraordinarily limited, both in space and in time. Even with those recognitions, we have the temerity to try to understand reality. That's that's the nobility. We don't cower in the face of our recognition. We stand up, we face it, we push on,. In the process, we are able to transcend the qualities of the world that would seemingly be insurmountablee the final lines of the book are a m just read it from the book to make sur ohavea long note section um

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