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The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

~Brian Greene

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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 begin life as little scientists.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Begin Children Every How Know Knows Life Little Parent Scientists Talk Things Time Unknown Walk Want Work

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Advanced First Forward General High High School High School Students Math Most Now Physicists Put Relativity School Students Teach Unfamiliar Very

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I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Away Basically Clutter Just Piles See Stand Stuff Throw Whenever I See

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Beyond Grip Guards Her Horizon Just Law Nature Physical Reality Secrets Sometimes True True Nature

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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'.

~Brian Greene

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As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Bath Bubble Down Huge Leads Many May Other Our Promising Reason Scientists Single Suspect Track Universe Universes

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The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

~Brian Greene

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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Analyzing Aspects Black Black Hole Black Holes Conditions Environment Exotic Extreme Fundamental Hole Holes Ideas Important Laboratory Light Nature New Perplexing Provide See Shed Sometimes Space Space And Time Test Theoretical Time Within

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All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

~Brian Greene

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 9th, 1963

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