Aspect Quote by Edward Witten

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That…

— Brian Greene

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment, though very generously supported by the academic”

— Lee Smolin

“Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment,”

— Lee Smolin

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

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

— Ashoke Sen