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1. "We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more." ~ Edward Witten
2. "As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore." ~ Edward Witten
3. "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 century that the equations that work have inner harmony." ~ Edward Witten
4. "Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle." ~ Edward Witten
5. "If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is." ~ Edward Witten
6. "One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty." ~ Edward Witten
7. "As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually." ~ Edward Witten
8. "Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see." ~ Edward Witten
9. "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." ~ Edward Witten
10. "I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes." ~ Edward Witten
11. "If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways." ~ Edward Witten
12. "In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything." ~ Edward Witten
13. "It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces." ~ Edward Witten
14. "I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically." ~ Edward Witten
15. "It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory." ~ Edward Witten
16. "Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics." ~ Edward Witten
17. "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 likely to be tested." ~ Edward Witten
18. "Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to." ~ Edward Witten
19. "I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world." ~ Edward Witten
20. "If one of the five theories describes our univers, who lives in the other four worlds" ~ Edward Witten
21. "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

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