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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
Universe
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
Theory
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
Composer
"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
Familiarity
"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."
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"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."
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"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
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"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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