"Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework……" — Brian Greene
"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 laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later."
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121 Quotes by Brian Greene
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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of…
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So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and…
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics…
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A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de…
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The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy…
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated…
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I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot…
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what…
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of…
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
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I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And…
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything:…
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I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't…
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than…
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as…
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot…
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human…
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is…
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases…
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not…
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or…
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how…
— Seneca the Younger
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long…
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