Discovery Quote by Ashoke Sen

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope…

— Fabiola Gianotti

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early…

— Edward Witten

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

— Lisa Randall

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts…

— Edward Witten

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as…

— Edward Witten

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of…

— Brian Greene

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules,…

— Brian Greene

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from…

— Nathan Seiberg

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

— Lee Smolin