Gerald Bull was a Canadian engineer who specialized in long-range artillery and set out to build a great gun that could shoot satellites into space.

Quotes by Gerald Bull in Time One

Previous theories of fundamental physics regarded [the particle] as an infinitely small, zero-dimensional point―an object that … the mathematics of today is still ill-equipped to handle.

[I]n the end, we want a theory that works on all scales―a theory that gives us both particle physics and cosmology.

[S]tring theory requires exactly ten dimensions to be consistent, no more and no less ….

Geometry, as it appears in physics, might be a phenomenon that’s “emergent” rather than fundamental.

[Calabi-Yaus] are alive and well and, if not living in Paris, are at least still prominent ….

In the end, the search for a simple, all-encompassing theory of nature amounts, in essence, to the search for the symmetry of the universe