“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped t…”

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

— Stephen Hawking

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As quoted in "Return of the time lord" in The Guardian (27 September 2005)

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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

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