David Gross

1941– · American particle physicist and string theorist

Topics: physics

• Physics is always a gamble; it is a game of exploration. That’s the fun of it. We never know for sure what will happen. Sometimes, we theorists can anticipate, but nature is the final judge.

  — David Gross

• Are all the (measurable) dimensionless parameters that characterize the physical universe calculable in principle or are some merely determined by historical or quantum mechanical accident and incalculable?

  — David Gross

• We now know that string theory and quantum field theory can often be different ways of looking at exactly the same phenomena.

  — David Gross