All Brian Greene Quotes
- Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Avant
- Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. Art
- I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. Believe
- If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. Cake
- We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure. Dimensional
- A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Doorstep
- Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty. Exploring
- Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable. Falsifiable
- For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is. Been
- How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? Expanse
- I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away. Clutter
- I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. Blogs
- I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great. Character
- I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. Baptist
- I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life. Everyday
- 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