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Brian Greene
Brian Greene

Brian Greene is a renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author known for making complex scientific concepts accessible to the public. Born on February 9, 1963 in New York City, he serves as a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. His research focuses on string theory, M-theory, and cosmology. Greene has written several acclaimed popular science books, including "The Elegant Universe," "The Fabric of the Cosmos," and "The Hidden Reality," which have been translated into over 40 languages. He has also produced and hosted PBS documentary series, bringing cutting-edge physics to mainstream audiences and inspiring millions worldwide. more

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“There is no thinking the form of thought from outside of thought. This yields a very different understanding of why there is no position from which we can do something which can qualify as 'apprehending a logically alien thought ' - where this is supposed to qualify as doing something that is at the same time a case of apprehending that which we do in thinking and a case of apprehending a form of activity that is comprehensible to us, as such, only from outside (only from a position that cannot be available to us in and through engaging in that form of activity).”

“We shall never know whether thought is an imposture, and that is providential. 'The people is, in some cases, so enlightened that it is no longer indifferent to anything' (Montesquieu). That is indeed the end point: when there is no longer anything about which there is nothing to say. Verdict of a Chinese writer on a monstrous tree that is at once a blackberry and a bamboo: 'any disorder appearing in nature is the sign of a hidden disorder in the administration of the Empire ... Order restored in nature clearly indicates satisfaction in heaven.' Our current blossoming of monsters and clones, hybrids and chimeras, our systematic mixing of mores and cultures, sexes and genes, cannot but attest to an irremediable disorder in the highest spheres of the Empire.”