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"Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

"And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."

"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."

"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on."

"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."

"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."

"This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it."

"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much."
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