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I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

- Edward Witten
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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.

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

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

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.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

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.

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.

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.

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

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I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.