Quotes About Brian Greene

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

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

if an atom were magnified to be as large as the observable universe, the same magnification would make the Planck length the size of an average tree.

Tononi's proposal elevates these observations to a defining characterization: conscious awareness is information that is highly integrated and highly differentiated.

The studies concluded that the graviton must be massless and chargeless, and must have the quantum mechanical property known as spin-2. (Very roughly, the graviton should spin like a top, twice as fast as the spin of a photon.)

A calculation—not an assumption, not a hypothesis, not an inspired guess—determines the number of space dimensions according to string theory, and the surprising thing is that the calculated number is not three, but nine. String theory leads us, inevitably, to a universe with six extra space dimensions

By embracing the nearly ludicrous suggestion that a gloppy grey knot of neurons has consciousness, you've already taken the big step.

Rather than despair because a unique universe seems not to emerge, we are encouraged to celebrate: string theory makes the least plausible part of Weinberg's explanation of the cosmological constant-the requirement that there be many more than 10^124 different universes-suddenly seem plausible.

For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions.

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

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.