Brian Greene Quotes
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.
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The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
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Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
