Brian Greene Quotes

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• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
• So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your…
• According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky.…
• A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry:…
• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang…
• Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
• I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
• 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 a…
• The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
• We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
• When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and…
• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity,…
• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics…
• Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
• I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow…
• My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force…
• Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
• I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark…

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