When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
Brian GreeneThe number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
Brian GreeneOver the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
Brian GreeneThe 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 GreeneThere'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.
Brian GreeneThe beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.
Brian Greene