Audience Comments

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“Brian Greene knocked the socks off the group.”
- National Business Aviation Association

“The event this evening was phenomenal! We had record attendance on-campus-roughly a thousand people. Dr Greene's visit represented a truly wonderful launch to our annual Nelson Series!”
- Harvey Mudd College

“A number of people have mentioned to me that he was the best speaker of the season. He was my first choice as well as by far the most informative and entertaining.”
- MPSF Inc.

“We thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Greene. He really had the audience's attention for the entire hour, and they sat spellbound in their seats for a few questions and answers. He was all that you said he would be. The luncheon Q & A was equally fun and educational. Fantastic!”
- Town Hall South - Pittsburgh

“...everyone thought that Brian Greene was amazing. Most of our crowd did not have any physics knowledge and yet felt that his highly entertaining presentation really opened up a new and facinating world to them.”
- Institute for Jewish Thought & Culture

“It was a wonderful session with Brian Greene. I think he did the best job that anybody we've ever had to be quite honest with you, and I think that's shared by everyone here. We've had rave notices from everybody, including our board of trustees.”
- International Conference of College Teaching and Learning

“Prof. Greene was a tremendous hit among all our guests. His speech was very dynamic and engaging.”
- University of California, Riverside

“He was a fine speaker. It is frankly incredible to me that someone can give a coherent talk explaining certain crucial features of special relativity, general relativity and quantum mechanics, the source of the conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics, and the way that string theory resolves the conflict " all in one hour. He also did a terrific job in a Q&A.”
- Butler University

“One of the top (really close to the top) speakers the forum has had in 10 years! Major success " students, faculty and town people. They even had students and faculty from other colleges in the surrounding community. Could not have been better.”
- College of Wooster

“Everything was fabulous with Dr. Greene. The students were very engaged in his classroom visit and his lecture was amazing! He was energetic, funny, and very easy to understand. The campus is still buzzing about how great it was.”
- Lakeside School

“The event was wonderful! Brian delivered a great talk. He had the audience in his hands.... Brian was nice to work with, amenable to signing books, talking with people, etc... The audience was packed to capacity and more.”
- Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology

“We had over 500 in attendance. Brian Greene was delightful as a person and insightful as a scientist and lecturer.”
- Montclair State University

“I have been to many Colloquia in my days at Ohio State and yours was absolutely the best ever! The audience was spellbound.”
- Ohio State University

“The audience was enthralled and delighted.”
- The California Academy of Sciences

“He was fabulous! We had the largest crowd of any of the past 5 years. he was terrific - all the things you said he would be. He was gracious and met for breakfast with some students and faculty this morning and took a tour of the campus with the physics dept. I hope he enjoyed his stay here as much as we enjoyed having him.”
- Union College

“We had Brian Greene on our campus last night. It was outstanding. He is, as I'm sure you know, just an incredible individual. He gave a scintillating lecture. We probably had 3,500 or 4,000 people in our building last night and it was just fabulous, just fabulous, everything we asked. ”
- University of Buffalo

“Thank you for visiting the UNF campus and delivering one of the most remarkable presentations I have had the pleasure to witness. Many students were in the audience, and it gives me great joy that they experienced your lecture--the content of which was only matched by your wit and rarefied communication skills.”
- University of North Florida

“The oration was fantastic! We had a packed house, and he was very clear, interesting, funny, and willing to answer questions (we had a long q&a).”
- University of Pennsylvania

“Thank you very much for your contribution to the success of this special event in our Presidential Lecture Series.”
- University of Tulsa

“Brian Greene was fantastic - so many students were in the audience and that was one of our goals. He really does make science understandable while at the same time - doesn't compromise your intelligence.”
- Western Washington University

“Brian Greene did an outstanding presentation for us on Monday evening. Our audience numbered close to 600 and they stayed through everything, including the Q&A, which is usually a point of exodus for many of the students. The response of the faculty in the sciences was also very positive. Brian won them over immediately at the colloquium...”
- Wittenberg University