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Brian Greene Quotes | Quotes said by Brian Greene

  • Brian Greene Quote #1

    ... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.


  • Brian Greene Quote #2

    ...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

  • Brian Greene Quote #3

    ...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

  • Brian Greene Quote #4

    …The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

  • Brian Greene Quote #5

    According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

  • Brian Greene Quote #6

    Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

  • Brian Greene Quote #7

    As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

  • Brian Greene Quote #8

    Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

  • Brian Greene Quote #9

    Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

  • Brian Greene Quote #10

    But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

  • Brian Greene Quote #11

    Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

  • Brian Greene Quote #12

    I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

  • Brian Greene Quote #13

    I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

  • Brian Greene Quote #14

    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

  • Brian Greene Quote #15

    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 sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

  • Brian Greene Quote #16

    If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.

  • Brian Greene Quote #17

    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 and understand the external world.

  • Brian Greene Quote #18

    My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

  • Brian Greene Quote #19

    My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.

  • Brian Greene Quote #20

    Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  • Brian Greene Quote #21

    One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

  • Brian Greene Quote #22

    Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

  • Brian Greene Quote #23

    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, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

  • Brian Greene Quote #24

    Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  • Brian Greene Quote #25

    Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

  • Brian Greene Quote #26

    The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

  • Brian Greene Quote #27

    The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

  • Brian Greene Quote #28

    Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

  • Brian Greene Quote #29

    Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

  • Brian Greene Quote #30

    We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting -- bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest -- the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies.

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