Skip to content

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

— Brian Greene

Another quote →

More quotes by Brian Greene

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)

All Brian Greene quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Greene (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.