All Brian Greene Quotes
- ...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. Abeyance
- When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level Actors
- Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... Confusion
- Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. Anchored
- All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear. Acting
- But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 Convinced
- You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. Any
- ...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice. Inspirational
- Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. Care
- We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now. Exist
- As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to… Begin
- There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes. Bangs
- Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. Broke
- The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. Accepted
- One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world… Dimensions
- All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points… All
- What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous. Beethoven
- Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. Correct
- String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it. Accommodate
- I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. Best
- By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world,… Dimension