Brian Greene Quotes

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• Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

  Brian Greene

  Exploring, Uncertainty

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• My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

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  Teacher, Answers, Best Teacher

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• Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

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  Confusion, Understanding, Process

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• I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

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  Journey, Thinking, Long

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• When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

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  Kids, Civilization, Musician

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• The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

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  Beautiful, Want, Explanation

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• Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

  Brian Greene

  Perception, World, Patterns

  "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

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  Stars, Dark, Night

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• Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

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  Understanding, Insight

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• All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

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  Law, Acting, Bags

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• Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Physics, Totality

  "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Science 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 is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, People, Form

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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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  Past, Illusion, Said

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• We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

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  Thinking, Want, Moments

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• Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

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  Science, Avant Garde, Mathematics

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• The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

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  Law, Lines, Physics

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• The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

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  Asking, Answers, May

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

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  Real, Law, Choices

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• In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

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  Fall, Light, Space

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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 empowering and emotional.

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  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

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  Daughter, Motivation, I Love You More

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• No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

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  Cat, Trying, Matter

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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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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  Pathways, Care, Realizing

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.162, Vintage

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• Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

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  Finals, Programming, Evidence

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• A 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.

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  Dream, Light, Age

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