Brian Greene

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

— Brian Greene

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

— Brian Greene

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

— Brian Greene

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

— Brian Greene

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

— Brian Greene

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

— Brian Greene

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next…

— Brian Greene

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all…

— Brian Greene

“Just as we envision all of space as really being out there, as really existing, we should also envision all of time…

— Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to…

— Brian Greene

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

— Brian Greene

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't…

— Brian Greene

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

— Brian Greene

The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into…

— Brian Greene

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory…

— Brian Greene

In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the…

— Brian Greene

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating…

— Brian Greene

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science…

— Brian Greene

Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition,…

— Brian Greene

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by…

— Brian Greene

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that…

— Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

— Brian Greene

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

— Brian Greene

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name…

— Brian Greene

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

— Brian Greene

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices…

— Brian Greene

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond…

— Brian Greene

Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in…

— Brian Greene

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can…

— Brian Greene

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

— Brian Greene

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

— Brian Greene

“As Feynman once wrote, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees…

— Brian Greene

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the…

— Brian Greene

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

— Brian Greene

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years…

— Brian Greene

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

— Brian Greene

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

— Brian Greene

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

— Brian Greene

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand…

— Brian Greene