If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Brian Greene Quotes