...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many -… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
