"Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have……" — Brian Greene
"Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics."
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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 Centuries Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of…
— Julie Burchill
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