String theory Quote by Lee Smolin

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

— Lee Smolin

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 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

One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are…

— Peter Woit

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

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

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

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

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that…

— Lee Smolin

“String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way.”

— Stephen Hawking

“At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory”

— Augusten Burroughs

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from…

— Nathan Seiberg