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Quotes by Brian Greene

A clear night sky and a little instruction allows anyone to soar in mind and imagination to the farthest reaches of an enormous universe in which we are but a speck. And there is nothing more exhilarating and humbling than that.
– Brian Greene
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
– Brian Greene
As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.
– Brian Greene
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
– Brian Greene
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
– Brian Greene
I've spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
– Brian Greene
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
– Brian Greene
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
– Brian Greene
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
– Brian Greene
Science proceeds along a zig-zag path toward what we hope will be ultimate truth, a path that began with humanity's earliest attempts to fathom the cosmos and whose end we cannot predict.
– Brian Greene
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
– Brian Greene
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
– Brian Greene
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
– Brian Greene
We have this idea that the basic constituents of nature are these vibrating strings, that their vibrational patterns dictate the properties of particles, and they dictate the kinds of forces at work in the world. If the theory is right, that simple notion will perhaps be able to explain, in principle, every physical phenomenon.
– Brian Greene
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
– Brian Greene
What is reality? We humans only have access to the internal experiences of perception and thought, so how can we be sure they truely reflect an external world?... the reality we observe... . may have little to do with the reality, if any, that's out there. Nevertheless, because observations are all we have, we take them seriously.
– Brian Greene
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my Theorem.
– Brian Greene