“I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.”
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Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University, where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. His first book, The Elegant Universe, has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, spent twenty-five weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City. [(Source)][1] [1]: https://www.randomhouseacademic.com/author?id=11013
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“I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.”
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“The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviol...”
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“I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think w...”
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“Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' qu...”
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“Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.”
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“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformatio...”
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“In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visua...”
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“The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.”
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“Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.”
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“I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.”
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“How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?”
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“As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begi...”
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“Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.”
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“Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.”
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“I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the wa...”
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“The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known...”
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“Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.”
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“I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to thi...”
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“The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any...”
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“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'.”
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