Top 107 Quotes by Brian Greene

About Brian Greene

These are some quotes by American author Brian Greene Physicist, who was born on February 9, 1963.

I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

Brian Greene

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Brian Greene

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.

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

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

Brian Greene

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

Brian Greene

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.

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

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Brian Greene

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

Brian Greene

Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.

Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.

Brian Greene

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