American - Physicist | February 9, 1963 -
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
LifeLoveHomeScienceYouWay
By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.
WorldDirectionYouPlaceEveryday
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.
EducationTodayScienceSchoolDeep
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
StructureImageMightTwo-Dimensional
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
GreatUniverseViewAboveHowSpeck
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
YouTeachMatterTryHardFail
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
CakeWillRightOutTheoryThick
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.
I AmMomDoctorYouWhyShe
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.
TodayTruthTomorrowFindingWrong
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.
PartnerTheoryPartnersKnownShould
We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.
KnowNowExistHeavyMustWould
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.
IntelligenceWorldYouInformation
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Brian Greene quotes