"I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, …"

"String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include…"

"Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly comp…"

"Quantum mechanics... developed through some rather messy, complicated processes stimulated by experiment. While it's …"

"In Newton's day the problem was to write something which was correct - he never had the problem of writing nonsense, …"

"String theory at its finest is, or should be, a new branch of geometry. ...I, myself, believe rather strongly that th…"

"I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it…"

"I would expect that a proper elucidation of what string theory really is all about would involve a revolution in our …"

"It's been said that string theory is part of the physics of the twenty-first century that fell by chance into the twe…"

"It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... Str…"