Exploring the cosmos, peering toward its outer limits as well as back to its earliest moments, are taking scientists to places far removed from our everyday sensory experience.Brian Greene
In physics, we’ve learned that perception is not a passive process. Instead, it’s an active interpretation of inputs coursing through our sensory equipment.Brian Greene
Our picture of reality is like the portrait of a loved one, painted with careful attention and deep affection, which nonetheless may bear little resemblance to its subject.Brian Greene
Arguments by analogy are not arguments from first principles: just because you can imagine other universes does not mean that they exist.Brian Greene
In science, it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.Brian Greene
Increasingly, many physicists think that weaving together quantum mechanics and general relativity requires that we entertain the existence of more than the three spatial dimensions that we directly experience.Brian Greene
Quantum physics shows us that at a fundamental level, physics isn't deterministic.Brian Greene
Our universe may not be unique. There could be other universes, disconnected from ours, unreachable by telescope, but nonetheless real.Brian Greene
The past tells us what has definitely happened. But the future is mutable, malleable - a tapestry of overlapping realities, only one of which will ultimately be stitched into the cosmic quilt.Brian Greene
The universe gives rise to conscious beings who can recognize its beauty, stand in awe of it, decipher its truths, and experience how improbable it is that they exist.Brian Greene