“You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But w...” — Edward Witten Quote

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

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 everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.