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"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."
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"When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one."
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"I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results."
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