{"author":"Brian Greene","author_id":"Brian+Greene","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["science"],"id":4589,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["i am","doctor","why "],"id":8581,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["metaphor","science","string-theory"],"id":16869,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["mathematics","world","three "],"id":40438,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["nature","time","light "],"id":41263,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"... Things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["brian-greene","explain","explains-a-lot","life","meaning-of-life","philosophy","science","string-theory","the-elegant-universe"],"id":60368,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["time","experience","challenges "],"id":74866,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["universe","bread","theory "],"id":86204,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["world","information","you "],"id":102357,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"},{"text":"The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.","author":"Brian Greene","tags":["time","time travel","physics "],"id":118066,"author_id":"Brian+Greene"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}