Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
BRIAN GREENEWriting for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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To tell you the truth, I’ve never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it’s hard to say.
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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.
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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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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.
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And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that’s been the big challenge and that’s why we have been excited about string theory, as it’s one of the only approaches that can put it together.
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.
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I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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