Brian Greene

Brian Greene

09-Feb-1963


United States


Physicist

Brian Randolph Greene is an American philosopher, mathematician and ropes researcher. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and has chaired the World Science Festival since its inception in 2008. Greene worked on mirroring the mirrors, recounting the many different features of Calabi - Yau.

QUOTES BY Brian Greene


The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

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

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.

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

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

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?

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

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