I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.


as quoted by K.C. Cole, "A Theory of Everything" New York Times Magazine (1987) Oct.18

Edward Witten Quotes

I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.