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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Adventure Been Greatest Our Ourselves Science Sought Stories Surroundings Thousands Thousands Of Years Understand Unfolding Years

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My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Figure How Job Our Out Tell Universe View You

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One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Boundaries Crosses Ease National Science Total Universal Wonders

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Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Brain Could Day Doing Even Five Found Four Given Hours Intense Much Physics Public Science Stuff Take Work

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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.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Developments Grasping Hurdle Insights Major Mathematics Modern Most Nature People Universe Using

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I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Big Big Part Book Certainly Cosmos Fabric Major Means Our Part Plays Reality Say Sense Space Space And Time Theme Time Understanding

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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Assure Beyond Doing Interested Longer Permanently Science Somehow String String Theory Theorist Theory Were Working Would You I Can

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I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Character Great Irreverent Like Lot Love Quite Quite A Lot Show Simpsons The Simpsons Whole I Love

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The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Accuracy Back Because Book Challenge Deal Description Flow Great Great Deal Image Main Moving Often Pages People Precision Presents Read Really Say Slowly Sort Television Tendency Things Turn Tv Which Will Work

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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.

~Brian Greene

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 9th, 1963

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