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• We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let's go forward with the possible ideas that come out of the mathematics. It's hard for us to imagine a universe that would have no time at all.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Dimensions, Imagine

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

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• I wouldn't say that The Fabric of the Cosmos is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Mean, Reality

  "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. February 8, 2005.

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• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Energy, Molecules

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• The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

  Brian Greene

  Opposites, Needs, Way

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• When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

  Brian Greene

  Appreciate, Quality, Benefits

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• 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

  Law, Two, Environmental

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• Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Kids, Talking

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

  Brian Greene

  Cake, Icing, Theory

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Goal, Looks

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

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• String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Reflection, Bangs

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

  Brian Greene

  Stuff, Clutter, I Can

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• 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

  Real, Home, Order

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". "Geeks' Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

  Brian Greene

  Children, Eye, Light

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• According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

  Brian Greene

  Sky, Space, Age

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.308, Vintage

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• So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Reality, Space

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

  Brian Greene

  Principles, Needs, Scientist

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• The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Years, Naked

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

  Brian Greene

  Upheaval, Mathematics, Century

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• 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

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• ...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

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• I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Hands, Wind

  "Unraveling the 'Fabric of the Cosmos': Q&A with Brian Greene". Interview with Denise Chow, www.space.com. November 1, 2011.

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• 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.

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• For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

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  Understanding, Rich, Exciting

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• So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Support, Earth

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

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• 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

  Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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