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Brian Greene Quotes

born 1963 United States

Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time and The Fabric of the Cosmos, and a related PBS television special.

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Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible constituents of matter?

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules and brush the edge of acceptability in the search for solutions.

All species of particles are unified in superstring theory since each arises from a different vibrational pattern executed by the same underlying entity.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

Like modern and classical music, it’s not that one approach is right and the other wrong – the methods one chooses to use are largely a matter of taste and training.

The elegance of rich, complex, and diverse phenomena emerging from a simple set of universal laws is at least part of what physicists mean when they invoke the term "beautiful."

The Elegant Universe (1999)

Some people think that the big bang is an explanation of how the universe began, its not. The big bang is a theory of how the universe evolved from a split second after whatever brought it into existence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Greene (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.