"(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so all subatomic particles appear pointlike.)If we were to pluck this string, the vibr..."
- Michio Kaku
"String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings."
- Kamand Kojouri
"I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory."
- Sam Harris
"All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics."
- Ashim Shanker
"... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice."
- 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 a little loop of vibrating string."
- Edward Witten
"Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong."
- Lee Smolin
"The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?"
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its measured value. One of the aims of superstring theory is to pre..."
- John D. Barrow
"We have one real candidate for changing the rules; this is string theory. In string theory the one-dimensional trajectory of a particle in spacetime is replaced by a two-dimensional orbit of a string...."