Edward Frenkel
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There are fewer people who kind of buy into official religion, you know?
So...
We have this urge, I suppose, to explain and to know and to dissect and to analyze and to conceptualize, which is a wonderful quality that we have, and we should definitely pursue that.
But I find it a little bit unlikely that the universe is just exactly what I have learned.
And note something that I don't know.
You see?
Fake.
I'm glad you mentioned that because that's just, it seems to be the mantra.
It's just worth it.
Fake it till you make it.
Isn't it?
No.
Well, yes, we do that.
But we also do other things.
We can be truly in love.
We can be truly inspired when it is not fake.
I do believe.
Call me romantic, okay?
But I do believe.
And this is a very good, I'm glad you're putting it in this terms because I've had conversations like that.