All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear. Brian Greene More Quotes by Brian Greene More Quotes From Brian Greene For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is. Brian Greene rich understanding exciting 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. Brian Greene theory respectable long We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure. Brian Greene might two science If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. Brian Greene icing cake theory I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. Brian Greene capture drama believe The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. Brian Greene mail letters numbers 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. Brian Greene naked eye years Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival. Brian Greene distance stars water My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic. Brian Greene emotional yesterday today Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. Brian Greene environmental law two Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it. Brian Greene talking kids moving Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. Brian Greene space challenges thinking String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation. Brian Greene bangs stars reflection String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense. Brian Greene mechanic together believe The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth. Brian Greene opposites way needs I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing. Brian Greene real home order I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story. Brian Greene hollywood trying ideas I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science. Brian Greene strings theory would-be 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. Brian Greene use law discovery I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. Brian Greene goal journey looks
