Brian Greene

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. ”

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. ”

I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows. ”

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great. ”

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

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. ”

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing. ”

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives. ”

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life. ”

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