"If you are a researcher, you are trying……" — Edward Witten

"If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is."

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31 Quotes by Edward Witten

Edward Witten has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a…
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it…
M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms…
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at…
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for…
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or…
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which…
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm…
In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something…

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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can… — Julian Assange
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people… — Dan Aykroyd
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word:… — Dave Barry
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before… — Jose Bergamin
I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

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