black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Brian Greene

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.
BRIAN GREENE

Claim Dimensions Three
I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
BRIAN GREENE

Every Day Mesh Strings
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.
BRIAN GREENE

About Big General Place String Universe
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
BRIAN GREENE

Giving Mathematics Physics
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
BRIAN GREENE

Needs Should States
Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
BRIAN GREENE

Cosmos Eternity Instead Quieter
It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
BRIAN GREENE

Hard Passion Teaching
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

Car Doe Energy
But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future.
BRIAN GREENE

Black Giving Thinking
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
BRIAN GREENE

Mathematics Science
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality.
BRIAN GREENE

Musical Particles Reality String Vibrating
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

Confusion Emotional Perspective
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
BRIAN GREENE

Choices Law Real
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.
BRIAN GREENE

Age Dream Light
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
BRIAN GREENE

Dark Opponent Physical Wrestling
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
BRIAN GREENE

Believe Mechanic Together

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brian Greene Quotes