Brian GreeneThe boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. ✨ Brian Greene (2010). The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden D… ▶371Love
Brian GreeneWhen you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark … ▶372LifePoliticsTruth
Brian GreeneA watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.373Truth
Brian GreeneYou should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. ✨ Brian Greene (2007). The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time… ▶341PoliticsTimeTruth
Brian GreeneI've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story. 364LifeThought
Brian GreeneThe number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.353Humanity
Brian GreeneWhen kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level342Humanity
Brian GreeneWhen I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.375Death
Brian GreeneString theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and… ▶332Death
Brian GreeneScience is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why… ▶365HumanityPhilosophyThought
Brian GreeneThe bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.376PoliticsTime
Brian GreeneWe are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. ✨ Is our universe the … ▶332HumanityLifeTruth
Brian GreeneMy best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.365Reflection
Brian GreeneThe central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe… ▶322Thought
Brian GreeneString theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of spa… ▶377Reading
Brian GreeneQuantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters… ▶344ThoughtTruth
Brian GreeneWhen we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.334Love
Brian GreeneWhen 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. ✨ S… ▶323Truth
Brian GreeneMost scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.367Philosophy
Brian GreeneFalsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.345Philosophy
Brian GreeneAssessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. ✨ Brian Greene (2007). The Fabric o… ▶378LifeTimeTruth
Brian GreeneOur eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.357Hope
Brian GreeneAccording 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, … ▶313TimeTruth
Brian GreeneBut, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5346HopeTime
Brian GreeneThere may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the re… ▶369Truth
Brian GreeneI would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. ✨ Greene, With C… ▶303Time
Brian GreeneBefore 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… ▶292Politics
Brian GreeneArt makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.3710Humanity
Brian GreeneThe melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about… ▶326Time
Brian GreeneScience 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 tr… ▶293LifePolitics
