All Brian Greene Quotes
- I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. Bang
- It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for. Hard
- Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. Context
- One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease. Boundaries
- Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. Centuries
- Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?' Beginning
- Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. Answer
- The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. Allowed
- The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some… Any
- The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way. Great
- The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. Choreographers
- The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few… Been
- There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. Abstract
- We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the… Briefest
- In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the… Constantly
- Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the… Calculate
- Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now'… All
- Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of… Analyzing
- Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for… Big
- For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. Development