Brian Greene Quotes
Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.
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You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.
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Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
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But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.
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Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
