Morgan Freeman quotes from Through the Wormhole

Morgan Freeman

  Space, time, life itself—the secrets of the cosmos lie through the wormhole.

Morgan Freeman

  Now, I think of myself as an open-minded person, but scientists tell me I'm kidding myself, and so are you.  We all look at the world with prejudice, and when you only have a split second to decide, your own snap judgements may shock you.

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  But bigotry isn't just about the circumstances of your birth.  Even fans of rival sports teams can learn to hate one another with all the venom of a bigot.

Morgan Freeman

  Do you see the world as it really is, or how your political party wants you to see it.

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  Media pundits often accuse violent video games of destroying the morality of our youth.  Is that really true?  Matthew has a series of test subjects play a game where they can hurt simulated human beings.  So, Matthew gives the order to commit blatant crimes against humanity.  …  It is guilt-inducing, to say the least.

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  For now, our best tool to fight bigotry lies within ourselves: the courage to walk away.  We all have bigotry inside us.  Most of us work hard to suppress our innate prejudices, but some don't, and their bigotry is infectious.  The solution to bigotry does not start with government and laws; it starts with understanding and neutralising its source, and with you and me doing our best to change.

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  We're all marching relentlessly forward through time.  We accept that there's no way to get off this ride, or to change our destiny.  But what if that's not really true?  What if we can send messages back in time and change events that already happened?  Can the future reach back and re-write the present?  Can time go backwards?

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  But to find the backwards-in-time-travelling Higgs singlet, we'll have to look at what happens before the collision that created it.  …  Currently, the L. H. C. isn't set up to look at collisions before they happen.

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  It may seem that time relentlessly carries us from the past toward the future, but that's not the way the universe really works.  What takes place in our past does not simply recede into history, it becomes imprinted into the fabric of the cosmos.  One day, we may learn to weave the threads of the past and the future together, and truly play with the boundless possibilities of time.

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  What is the meaning of life?  Don't you believe there's a reason for us being here?  We are, after all, such sophisticated creatures, the result of billions of years of evolution.  Surely, life is about more than just our biological needs, more than the daily rat race.  Is all the knowledge we've gained over the generations aiming toward some final goal?  Are we architects of our own fate, or is life just a series of random accidents?  Is our existence just a fluke of nature, or are we here for a reason?

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  Richard doesn't have billions of years to watch evolution in action, but he does have the span of one lifetime, which he has dedicated to performing the longest evolutionary experiment in the history of science.  Twenty-seven years ago, Richard plucked twelve genetically-identical E. coli bacteria from a container and allowed them to start their own populations in twelve separate worlds.  Ever since, day after day, he's watched each of the twelve populations multiply and compete amongst themselves for a limited amount of food.

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  Life may not have one unifying purpose, but that shouldn't stop us all from searching for it.

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  Our universe certainly seems real.  But what if it's not?  We may be nothing more than video game characters designed for someone else's amusement.  But how could a computer juggle every aspect of the cosmos?  Maybe what looks random has already been programmed to happen.  Can we discover some hidden glitch in the laws of the universe and uncover its hidden code?  Do we live in the Matrix?

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  If you think you see everyone as equal, you're kidding yourself.  We all have biases, and no matter how open-minded we think we are, stereotypes colour our judgements of others and can lead us badly astray.  We live in a society fractured by race, religion, even our favourite sports teams.  We divide ourselves into rival tribes.

  "The political divide between us grows deeper with every passing year."

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  When did hate become hard-wired into our brains?

  "We live in two different Americas, one for the rich…"

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  Are we all born to discriminate against our fellow humans?  All we all bigots?

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  Does this mean that white Americans are inherently bigoted?  An utterly shocking trend with Josh's black participants suggests that it's much more complicated than that.

  We see that black participants show the same anti-black bias that white participants do.  Actually, when we test to see if there's a difference in the two groups, white participants versus black participants, they're not statistically different from each other.  So, we think this represents an awareness of a cultural stereotype, not that our participants believe, necessarily, that black men are more dangerous than white men.