Andrew Strominger

They're usually right, but I'm right enough.

Well...

I love math.

I think my first love is physics, and the math that I've done, I've done because it was needed.

In service of physics, but then, of course, in the heat of it, it has its own appeal.

It has its own appeal, and I certainly enjoyed it and

Ultimately, I would like to think, I wouldn't say I believe, but I would like to think that there's no difference between physics and mathematics, that all mathematics is realized in the physical world and all physics has a firm mathematical basis, that they're really the same thing.

I mean, why would there be math that had no physical basis?

It seems a little odd, right?

You have two kinds of math, some that are relevant to the real world.

My expertise as a physicist doesn't add anything to that.

It's not really... You know, physics is... You know, I was once very interested in philosophy and, you know, physics... Physics...

I like questions that can be answered, that it's not obvious what the answer is, and that you can find an answer to the question and everybody will agree.

What the answer is, and that there's an algorithm for getting there.

Not that these other questions aren't interesting, and they don't somehow have a way of presenting themselves, but to me, the interesting thing is to...

is motion in what we know, is learning more and understanding things that we didn't understand before, things that seemed totally confusing, having them seem obvious.

That's wonderful.

So I think those questions are there.

I mean, I would even go further, you know, the whole multiverse.

I don't think there's too much concrete we're ever going to be able to say about it.