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You Quotes by Brian Greene
- No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
- It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
- Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
- 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…
- Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now'…
- I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would…
- I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it…
- 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…
- I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another…
- In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be…
- Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions…
- Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's…
- Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is,…
- The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It…
- The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,…
- To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe…
- When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark…
- When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it…
- Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work…
- By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world,…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide