"Most scientists like to operate in the context……" — Brian Greene
"Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it."
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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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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words…
— Erykah Badu
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
— Christopher Alexander
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the…
— Uwe Reinhardt
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