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

“This tells us that M theory, if it exists, cannot describe a world in which space os continuous and one can pack an infinite…

— Lee Smolin

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

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

— Lee Smolin

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,”

— Lee Smolin

One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which describes gravity,…

— 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

“Basically, string theory is the development of this visionary idea in a context of a fixed background of space and time. Loop quantum gravity…

— Lee Smolin

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

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

— Ashoke Sen

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