Brian Greene Quotes
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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Fans give me yellow things, and I think now what's really fun is, when anyone sees yellow now, they'll think of me. Now it's kind of like this self-fulfilling prophecy: Yellow things come to me.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
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I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
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The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.
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The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
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There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
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I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
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Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
