Brian Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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.”

“Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.”