Nathan Seiberg Quotes

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“Whenever you work on something and try to solve one problem, and you end up helping or solving many other problems, it is a sign that what you are doing is good.”

Nathan Seiberg

as quoted by Sandhya Ramesh in: [Interview: 'There's No Conflict Between Lack of Evidence of String Theory and Work Being Done on It', The Wire, Bengaluru, 7 January 2018, https://thewire.in/science/theres-no-conflict-lack-evidence-string-theory-work-done]

“Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.”

Nathan Seiberg

[Where Is Fundamental Physics Headed? (public talk), 2014, https://www.sns.ias.edu/sites/default/files/Where%20is%20Fundamental%20Physics%20Heading%20Public.pdf]

“Supersymmetry arises naturally in string theory.”

Nathan Seiberg

It was originally motivated by string theory.
Source: [The World's Largest Experiment, 2013, https://www.sns.ias.edu/sites/default/files/World's_largest_experiment_%20Delhi.pdf] (public talk at Tryst, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

“The quantum dualities, which are known as S-duality or U-duality, extend the classical T-duality and lead to a beautiful and coherent picture of stringy dualities. These exchange highly quantum situations with semiclassical backgrounds, exchange different branes, etc. As in the classical dualities, among all dual descriptions there is at most one description which is natural because it is semiclassical. All other dual descriptions are very quantum mechanical.”

Nathan Seiberg

[Emergent spacetime, arXiv preprint hep-th/0601234, 2006, 6, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601234]