Quotes from Brian Greene

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

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.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.