"Physicists describe the two properties of physical laws—that they do not depend on when or where you use them—as symm…"

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules and brush the edge of acceptability…"

"The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what…"

"Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible consti…"

"Well, a big question is how did the universe begin. And we, cannot answer that question. Some people think that the b…"

"... the have to be curled up into this so-called Calabi-Yau shape, or ... it's a that is as close as you can be to be…"

"... I knew a guy, Brian Greene. I helped him to get a summer job at IBM because people told me he was brilliant, and …"

"The Fabric of the Cosmos covers a wider field than The Elegant Universe and paints it with a broader brush. There is …"

"Greene takes it for granted, and here the great majority of physicists agree with him, that the division of physics i…"

"He introduced a whole new set of physicists to join the pantheon that includes Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Boh…"