258 Quotes by Brian Greene

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

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.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

Stephen Hawking showed mathematically that the entropy of a black hole equals the number of Planck-sized cells that it takes to cover its event horizon. It’s as if each cell carries one bit, one basic unit of information.

I’ve seen children’s eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level.

Extraordinary emblems of math’s ability to illuminate the dark corners of the cosmos, black holes have become the cynosures of modern physics.