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I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
- Brian Greene
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
- Brian Greene
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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.
- Brian Greene
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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.
- Brian Greene
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The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
- Brian Greene
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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
- Brian Greene
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Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
- Brian Greene
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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.
- Brian Greene
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
- Brian Greene
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#Human
#Living
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#Spirit
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
- Brian Greene
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#Experience
#Space
#Time
#Up
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
- Brian Greene
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#Ideas
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#Were
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
- Brian Greene
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
- Brian Greene
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#Feel
#Human
#Music
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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.
- Brian Greene
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#I Am
#Mom
#Real
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The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
- Brian Greene
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#Needs
#Opinion
#Science
#Way
#Worst
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
- Brian Greene
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#May
#Universe
#Which
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
- Brian Greene
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#Nature
#Sometimes
#Two
I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.
- Brian Greene
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#Reality
#Space
#Theme
#Time
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
- Brian Greene
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#Ease
#Science
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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think we're hot on the trail.
- Brian Greene
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#Hot
#Journey
#Look
#Trail
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
- Brian Greene
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#Energy
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#Matter
#Theory
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.
- Brian Greene
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#Details
#Men
#Mind
#Women
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
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#Information
#Intelligence
#World
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
- Brian Greene
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#Physics
#Time Travel
#Time
#Travel
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.
- Brian Greene
#Believe
#Theory
#Together
#Universe
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.
- Brian Greene
#Cosmos
#Energy
#Fall
#Future
#Light
#Space
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.
- Brian Greene
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#Dance
#Stars
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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.
- Brian Greene
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#Theory
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
- Brian Greene
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#One Day
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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.
- Brian Greene
#Big
#Bread
#Space
#Theory
#Universe
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
- Brian Greene
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#Matter
#Teach
#Try
#Your
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
- Brian Greene
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#Law
#Nature
#Reality
#True
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
- Brian Greene
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#Uncertainty
#Unknown
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.
- Brian Greene
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#Life
#Perspective
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