Sheldon Glashow is an American physicist who spoke on ‘Towards a Unified Theory: Threads in a Tapestry’ when he accepted a Nobel Prize.

Quotes by Sheldon Glashow in Time One

In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. … The theory we now have is an integral work of art: the patchwork quilt has become a tapestry.