Best 20+ Brian Greene Messages, Quotes, and Images
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.
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.