I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident. (Edward Witten)

I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

Edward Witten

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