Brian Greene > Quotes

“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...”
― Brian Greene

“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

“Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos

“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level”
― Brian Greene

“Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos

“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

“Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.”
― Brian Greene

“But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos

“All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.”
― Brian Greene

“For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

“You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos

“According 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, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.”
― Brian Greene

“En un universo infinito hay infinitas copias. En algunas, su doble está leyendo ahora esta frase, a la par que usted. En otras, se la ha saltado, o siente que necesita tomar algo y ha dejado el libro. Y en otras ..., bien, no tiene un carácter muy agradable y es alguien al que usted no gustaría encontrar en un callejón oscuro”
― Brian Greene