Brian Greene Quotes, Thoughts and Image
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.