“No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.”
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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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“No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.”
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“String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore...”
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“When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.”
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“The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.”
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“Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.”
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“My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.”
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“I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have...”
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“Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.”
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“I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.”
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“Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as ever...”
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“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 experienc...”
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“I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.”
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“The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.”
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“There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this...”
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“We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.”
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“It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.”
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“Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're w...”
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“I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'”
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“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling...”
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“Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.”
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