Brian Greene Quotes

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.
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 laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
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, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.
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' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
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