Brian Greene Quotes
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.
When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
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 they can; it's hard to say.
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
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.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
…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.
... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.
