Adequate Quote by Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

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

— Lee Smolin

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

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

— Lee Smolin

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

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 do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

— Brian Greene

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting…

— Rob Bell

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

— Brian Greene

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

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

— Ashoke Sen