Ashoke Sen

Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not directly connected to string theory, the discovery of the Higgs boson demonstrated the power of theoretical reasoning. ”

Good teachers have joined Presidency from different parts of the country and even abroad. We have got idealistic teachers, and we are relying on their idealism. But state universities pay their teachers less than the central ones. If salary is not on a par with central institutes, teachers would tend to leave for those places. ”

In theoretical physics, one can, in principle, work from anyplace as long as one has a computer and Internet connection. So I do not find any disadvantage of being in Allahabad. ”

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it. ”

One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, and quantum mechanics. ”

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment. ”

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did. ”

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces. ”

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe. ”

In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where gravity becomes important as well as small distances where quantum mechanics is important. ”