All Brian Greene Quotes
- Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is,… Basic
- Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's… Confusion
- Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our… Adventure
- Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate… Addressing
- Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Beckons
- String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced… Big
- String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to… All
- String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the… Believe
- Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with… Electron
- The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It… Absolute
- The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,… Any
- The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a… Accuracy
- The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually,… Cause
- The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to… Beautiful
- There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe -… Bangs
- There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was… Campus
- To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe… Anybody
- We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains… Able
- When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high… Advanced
- When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives. Affects
- When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark… Amount
- When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it… Accord
- Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work… Actor
- Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. Assessing
- Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story… Among