"I think math is a hugely creative field,……" — Brian Greene
"I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols."
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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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More Constrained Quotes
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Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may…
— Mary Robinson
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and…
— Henri Matisse
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance…
— E. O. Wilson
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men,…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the…
— Rudolph Rummel
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to…
— Walter Raleigh
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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities…
— Ayelet Waldman
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the…
— Samuel Johnson
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