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I've spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
— Brian Greene
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
— Brian Greene
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
— Brian Greene
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
— Brian Greene
they are beyond each other's cosmic horizon.
— Brian Greene
We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.
— Brian Greene
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
— Brian Greene
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
— Brian Greene
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
— Brian Greene
My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.
— Brian Greene
Things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
— Brian Greene
When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
— Brian Greene
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
— Brian Greene
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
— Brian Greene
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
— Brian Greene
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
— Brian Greene
Comparing infinities is a treacherous business
— Brian Greene
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
— Brian Greene
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
— Brian Greene
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
— Brian Greene
the right slit - and since
— Brian Greene
All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.
— Brian Greene
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
— Brian Greene
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
— Brian Greene
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
— Brian Greene
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
— Brian Greene
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
— Brian Greene
Gravity is matter's sugar daddy.
— Brian Greene
blissful as ignorance,
— Brian Greene
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
— Brian Greene
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
— Brian Greene
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
— Brian Greene
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
— Brian Greene
Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
— Brian Greene
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
— Brian Greene
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
— Brian Greene
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
— Brian Greene
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
— Brian Greene
The skyscraper is but a physical realization of the information contained in the architect's design.
— Brian Greene
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
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
— Brian Greene
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
— Brian Greene
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
— Brian Greene
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
— Brian Greene
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
— Brian Greene
In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely inhospitable cosmic archipelago.
— Brian Greene
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
— Brian Greene
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
— Brian Greene
