When You Know The Answer You Want,

The Beauty Of String Theory Is The Metaphor Kind Of Really Comes Very Close To The Reality. The Strings Of String Theory Are Vibrating The Particles, Vibrating The Forces Of Nature Into Existence, Those Vibrations Are Sort Of Like Musical Notes. So String Theory, If It's Correct, Would Be Playing Out The Score Of The Universe.

I Can Assure You That No String Theorist Would Be Interested In Working On String Theory If It Were Somehow Permanently Beyond Testability. That Would No Longer Be Doing Science.

I've Had Various Experiences Where I've Been Called By Hollywood Studios To Look At A Script Or Comment On Various Scientific Ideas That They're Trying To Inject Into A Story.

We Are Living Through A Remarkably Privileged Era When Certain Deep Truths About The Cosmos Are Still Within Reach Of The Human Spirit Of Exploration.

Time Allows Change To Take Place And The Very Evolution Of The Universe Is What Requires Some Conception Of Time. Mathematically Can We Write Down A Universe That Doesn't Have Time? Sure. Do We Think That Would Be Realised In The Larger Reality That Is Out There? None Of Us Take That Possibility Seriously.