He is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality.
(1963 – )
– Brian Greene Quotes –
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
~ Brian Greene
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
~ Brian Greene
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
~ Brian Greene
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
~ Brian Greene
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly – or ever – gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~ Brian Greene
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
~ Brian Greene
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
~ Brian Greene
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
~ Brian Greene
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you’re going to fail.
~ Brian Greene
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~ Brian Greene
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
~ Brian Greene
If we really had a sense of how the universe really began, I think that would, really, alert us to our place in the cosmos in a deep way.
~ Brian Greene
Well, a big question is how did the universe begin. And we, cannot answer that question.
~ Brian Greene
Some people think that the big bang is an explanation of how the universe began, its not. The big bang is a theory of how the universe evolved from a split second after whatever brought it into existence.
~ Brian Greene
