Brian Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.”

“Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.”

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

“We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.”

“In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.”

“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.”

“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'.”

“Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'”