“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“... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.”
Brian Greene“My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.”
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“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“When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.”
Brian Greene“My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.”
Brian Greene“The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.”
Brian Greene“I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.”
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.”
Brian Greene“Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.”
Brian Greene