Brian Greene quote: "We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions."

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE

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

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE

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

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
BRIAN GREENE

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...
BRIAN GREENE

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confus...
BRIAN GREENE

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
BRIAN GREENE

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experi...
BRIAN GREENE

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
BRIAN GREENE

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extrao...
BRIAN GREENE

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually havi...
BRIAN GREENE

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from t...
BRIAN GREENE

In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, ...
BRIAN GREENE

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions...
BRIAN GREENE

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
BRIAN GREENE

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my "Theorem".
BRIAN GREENE

Right now we are facing adversity, but we just have to stick together. We have a chance to play in t...
BRIAN GREENE

The observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning. It shows that galaxies are nothin...
BRIAN GREENE

Erin Baker provided the offensive spark we so desperately needed, ... She scored the first goal of t...
BRIAN GREENE

Being on the road and competing at such a high level will give us confidence going into league play ...
BRIAN GREENE

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a u...
BRIAN GREENE

We don't abide by the SNIA definition for some specific reasons on the restore side of things. We fo...
BRIAN GREENE

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a f...
BRIAN GREENE

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally exp...
BRIAN GREENE

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanic...
BRIAN GREENE

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
BRIAN GREENE

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From ...
BRIAN GREENE

In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enor...
BRIAN GREENE

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, th...
BRIAN GREENE

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever ...
BRIAN GREENE

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patte...
BRIAN GREENE

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is tha...
BRIAN GREENE

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were b...
BRIAN GREENE

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicis...
BRIAN GREENE

String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum...
BRIAN GREENE

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general pub...
BRIAN GREENE

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was ra...
BRIAN GREENE

You don't have to search far to locate where the big bang occurred, for it took place where you are ...
BRIAN GREENE

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own ...
BRIAN GREENE

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

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and envi...
BRIAN GREENE

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It sa...
BRIAN GREENE

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
BRIAN GREENE

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
BRIAN GREENE

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints ...
BRIAN GREENE

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this ...
BRIAN GREENE

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us ...
BRIAN GREENE

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to...
BRIAN GREENE

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notic...
BRIAN GREENE

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptis...
BRIAN GREENE

His father was a great guy and was always a good fan. He loved Duke football, and he loved his son, ...
BRIAN GREENE

We had guys in the past who wanted to win; now we have guys who expect to win. It's an attitude shif...
BRIAN GREENE

When I got here, there were a lot of guys who would lose a game, and then right after the game they'...
BRIAN GREENE

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsif...
BRIAN GREENE

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the pa...
BRIAN GREENE

It's just we've found a way to somehow do it to ourselves. And we've got to figure out a way to get ...
BRIAN GREENE

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and q...
BRIAN GREENE

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimen...
BRIAN GREENE

The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this fea...
BRIAN GREENE

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were ...
BRIAN GREENE

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of re...
BRIAN GREENE

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I...
BRIAN GREENE

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....
BRIAN GREENE

Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they...
GRAHAM GREENE

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a brib...
GRAHAM GREENE

We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE

There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE

There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE

We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE

I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE

We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE

We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE

We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax ...
ALAN GREENE

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,
ALAN GREENE

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE

Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel l...
ASHLEY GREENE

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' not...
ASHLEY GREENE

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it need...
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg...
GRAHAM GREENE

I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone yo...
ASHLEY GREENE

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

The chronic pain market will likely undergo a major sea change over the next few years and there are...
ADAM GREENE

We want to get people excited about VCP. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things imp...
ADAM GREENE

We want to get people excited [about VCP]. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things i...
ADAM GREENE

This slowdown is expected because they are exhausting their cost-savings from the merger. But their ...
ADAM GREENE

With AHP we'll be looking at everything, just like Pfizer.
ADAM GREENE

I'm very pleased. My boys worked hard, and even though they got down 1-0 early, they worked very har...
ADAM GREENE

I don't think we'll see too many surprises on the downside, as we're really in bargain basement terr...
ADAM GREENE

I think a lot of companies have already put expectations so low they haven't set them up for those m...
ADAM GREENE

It's actually been really great. The kids are fun to work with and the kids actually do listen to wh...
ADAM GREENE

In the first few games, we've found a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication.
ADAM GREENE

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE

You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
ROBERT GREENE

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE

LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others

If you make a show of going against ...
ROBERT GREENE

LAW 25
Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-cre...
ROBERT GREENE

LAW 46
Never Appear Too Perfect

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, bu...
ROBERT GREENE

LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains...
GRAHAM GREENE

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou...
GRAHAM GREENE

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
GRAHAM GREENE

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE

Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
NATHANAEL GREENE

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE

When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet ar...
ROBERT GREENE

Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
ROBERT GREENE

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
VIVIAN GREENE

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was...
ROBERT GREENE

I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be ...
ASHLEY GREENE

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, O...
ASHLEY GREENE

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything n...
ASHLEY GREENE

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p...
GRAHAM GREENE

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel v...
ASHLEY GREENE

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich'...
ASHLEY GREENE

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like...
ASHLEY GREENE

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far...
ANDY GREENE

Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. Th...
ANDY GREENE

It's been electric here (at Goggin) all season, and we expect it to be the same way this weekend. We...
ANDY GREENE

I wouldn't say it's pressure ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's more like a controlled nervousn...
ANDY GREENE

Caruso played well tonight, as he always seems to do against us.
ANDY GREENE

I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but this is definitely a dream come true.
ANDY GREENE

I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but it is definitely a dream come true. I am looking forward...
ANDY GREENE

Innocence is a kind of insanity
GRAHAM GREENE

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the ind...
GRAHAM GREENE

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to ...
JOE GREENE

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothi...
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...
GRAHAM GREENE

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career polit...
JEFF GREENE

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.
JEFF GREENE

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
ROBERT GREENE

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relat...
ASHLEY GREENE

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
GRAHAM GREENE

As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we k...
JOE GREENE

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or ha...
JOE GREENE

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to car...
NANCY GREENE

I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you c...
ASHLEY GREENE

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to loo...
GRAHAM GREENE

Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers.

ROBERT GREENE

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup an...
ROBERT GREENE

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

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