Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work.

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

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.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

Not only am I not persuaded by the testimony; I do not even understand it. For me the charm of quarks is well hidden ...

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not directly connected to string theory, the discovery of the Higgs boson demonstrated the power of theoretical reasoning.

I had two passions when I was a child. First was to learn about Einstein's theory and help to complete his dream of a unified theory of everything. That's my day job. I work in something called string theory. I'm one of the founders of the subject. We hope to complete Einstein's dream of a theory of everything.

The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centuries ahead.

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.