Brian Greene Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Acting, Bags

• When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

  Brian Greene

  Giving, Physics, Mathematics

• Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

  Brian Greene

  Wrestling, Dark, Would Be

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.5, Vintage

• ...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

  Brian Greene

  Our World, Physics, Mechanic

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

• Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Physics, Totality

  "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

• That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Holy Grail, Tiny

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

• The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Lines, Physics

• In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Ideas, Issues

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

• Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

  Brian Greene

  Discovery, Law, Use

• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Law, Choices

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