Brian Greene Quotes

American - Physicist Born: February 9, 1963

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Uncertainty, Unknown, Exploring

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.

Life, Science, Experience, Perspective

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

Experience, Believe, Understanding

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Small Things, Small, Job, End, Big

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Nature, Environmental, Sometimes, Two

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

Stars, Dance, Universe, Binary, Big

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

Mathematics, Mind, Picture, Research

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

Deep, Accept, Questions, May, Boldness

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

Best, Deepest, Sometimes, Question, Our

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

Nature, Reality, Law, True, Sometimes

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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.

Future, Light, Space, Fall, Energy, Back

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Science, Mathematics, World, See, Three

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Work, Mathematics, Think, You, Creative

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.

Work, Car, You, Drive, Energy, Your

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.

Sky, Stars, Night, Thought, Universe

The 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 the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

Nature, Time, Light, Space, Hands, Speed

There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.

Universe, Big, May, Bangs, Our, Been

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.

Mom, I Am, Doctor, You, She, Real

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Deepest, Cats, Universe, Understand, Go

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

Science, Music, Art, Feel, Human, Us

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Nature, Mathematics, People, Universe

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.

Intelligence, You, World, Understand

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

Moment, Time, Think, You, Space, Moments

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

Rules, More, Like, Bend, Traditional

String 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 space.

Universe, Space, Bread, Big, Our, Some

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

Nature, Time, Light, Black, Space, Ideas

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