A biography for Brian Greenehasn’t been written yet.
“To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.”
“You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.”
“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.”
“I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.”
“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.”
“There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.”
“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.”
“As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.”
“I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.”
“Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.”
“The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.”
“My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.”
“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.”
“There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.”
“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...”
“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”
“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.”
“We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.”
“We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.”
“String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.”