20th century Quote by Edward Witten

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts…

— David Gross

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.

— Ashoke Sen

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

“Strings possess one defining property which is their tension. This quantity plays a crucial role in the overall picture of how strings can be…

— John D. Barrow

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

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its…

— Jon Spaihts

In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where gravity becomes…

— Ashoke Sen

Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development…

— Murray Gell-Mann

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

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

— Ashoke Sen

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight…

— Leonard Susskind

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway.…

— Leonard Susskind