Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

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