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 from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old... that quantum electrodynamic theory towards which Planck was heading [in 1900], took fifty years to emerge.


"Edward Witten" interview, Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1992) ed. P.C.W. Davies, Julian Brown

Edward Witten Quotes

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 from the Veneziano model, is...

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 from the Veneziano model, is...

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 from the Veneziano model, is...

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 from the Veneziano model, is...