"I’ve spent something like 17 years working on……" — Brian Greene
"I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support."
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121 Quotes by Brian Greene
Brian Greene has 121 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes…
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Every actor wants to direct.
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