Quotes by Brian Greene

About Brian Greene:

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.
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...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

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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.

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…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.

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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 li...

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

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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

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

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

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The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sl...

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

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

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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

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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 empoweri...

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

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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 s...

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I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing.

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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. Th...

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When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

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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 univ...

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I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrian Greene
  • DescriptionAmerican physicist
  • BornFebruary 9, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist; Writer