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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
“wonderful book that had a great influence in me”
“there's this wonderful book that had a great influence in me called the denial of death by ernest becker”— Brian Greene
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
“in your most recent book until the end of time you quote bertrand russell from a debate he had about god in 1948”— Lex Fridman
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What Is Life?
Erwin Schrodinger
“schroedinger wrote the book what is life based on the few lectures he gave in 1944 so let me ask the fundamental question here what is life”— Lex Fridman
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“kerouac jack carrack talked about this and on the road is you know when you leave a place if you're honest about it like life is short”— Lex Fridman
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Star Trek
Gene Roddenberry (inferred)
“as a kid i love star trek i just love the idea that we would be part of some universal community”— Brian Greene
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The Twilight Zone
Rod Serling (inferred)
“one of my favorite twilight zone episodes i don't ever saw this one where this alien civilization finally comes to planet earth”— Brian Greene
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Contact
Robert Zemeckis (inferred)
“this idea of a wormhole like jody foster and contact went through a wormhole deep space nine star”— Brian Greene
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rick Berman (inferred)
“jody foster and contact went through a wormhole deep space nine star i'm sure there are many other examples”— Brian Greene
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Interstellar
Christopher Nolan (inferred)
“if we're not trying to do things like build wormholes the way they did say an interstellar to get to a different place”— Brian Greene
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