Direction Quote by Edward Witten

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental…

— Edward Witten

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that…

— Edward Witten

“(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so all subatomic…

— Michio Kaku

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point…

— Edward Witten

“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

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

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

— M. Ward

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

“According to string theory in quantum mechanics the core of energy and matter on a subatomic level is a vibrating, string-like filament that is…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

I work in string theory. This is a branch of physics which assumes that the elementary objects in the universe are not particles but…

— Ashoke Sen

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating…

— Brian Greene