Brian Greene Quotes


"We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure."
- Brian Greene
"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Answers, Boldness, Deep, Flexibility, May, Questions)

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Familiarity, Question)

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Composers, Mathematicians, Rules)

"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Relativity)

"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Right, Theory, Will)

"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
(Related: Thought, Glory, Night, Sense, Sky, Stars, Universe, Wonder)

"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
- Brian Greene
(Related: Universe)

"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
- Brian Greene
(Related: Theory, Universe)