Brian Greene Quotes

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.