When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'. Brian Greene More Quotes by Brian Greene More Quotes From Brian Greene The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to. Brian Greene analysisreallife-is ...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice. Brian Greene universeifsway Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior. Brian Greene practiceanimalpeople The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. Brian Greene linesphysicslaw Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Brian Greene avant-gardemathematicsscience Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. Brian Greene pathwaysrealizingcare I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?' Brian Greene i-love-you-moredaughtermotivation A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Brian Greene unifiedprecisiontheory Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation? Brian Greene creationstorieswonder The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. Brian Greene askinganswersmay I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. Brian Greene one-daywould-besilly 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 catablebrain Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality Brian Greene tuitionmindreality Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on. Brian Greene partnerstheoryshould Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong. Brian Greene programmingevidencefinals The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect. Brian Greene lighttalkinghands Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. Brian Greene spacelightideas Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. Brian Greene perspectiveemotionalconfusion String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space. Brian Greene spacewould-bebread There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. Brian Greene scientistwayideas
