So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are lik…

- Edward Witten

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out ever…

- Edward Witten

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

- Edward Witten

You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

- Edward Witten

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…

- Edward Witten

M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste

- Edward Witten

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th…

- Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousn…

- Edward Witten

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Pr…

- Edward Witten