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Brian Greene Biography

Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. 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.

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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

Goal, Journey, Looks, Say, Unified

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

Answers, Best Teacher, Deeply, Ones, Teacher, Teachers

In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

Fall, Light, Space, Back, Returned, Faint

Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

Animal, Changes, Cultural, Fundamental, People, Practice

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 out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

Book, Different, Dramatic, Material, Way, Writing

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

Grapples, Physics, Presents, Reality, Totality, Universe

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

Needs, Physical, Should, State, States, System

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Art, Deeply, Feels, Humans, Science

So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars. . . it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.

Earth, Kind, Like, Similar, Stars, Support

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

Across, Age, Greatest, Inflation, Sky, Space

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Emotional, Known, String, Theory, Today, Yesterday

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

Acting, Bag, Bags, Law, Physics

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

Car, Doe, Energy, Gasoline, Mc2, Work

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

Assessing, Dark, Opponent, Physics, Would Be, Wrestling

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

Anchored, Insight, Requires, Understanding

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

College, Picture, Rooms, Undergraduate, Yearbook

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Choices, Free, Illusory, Law, Real

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Cat, General, Matter, Relativity, Trying

So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

Events, Image, Moving, Reality, Space

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules. . . Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Avant Garde, Mathematicians, Mathematics, Rules, Science, Willing

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