Deeper Quote by 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

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a…

— Roy H. Williams

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

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear…

— Michio Kaku

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

“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

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

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

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

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 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

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