Explore Quotes by Brian Greene

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

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.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

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

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

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

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

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

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.

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

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