"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."

Idea, Theory, Understanding

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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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"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

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"There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea."

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"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."

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"When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state."

Swami Vivekananda, Indian Clergyman

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"I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks."

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"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."

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"It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other."

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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"After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times."

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"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."

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"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."

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"People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that."

People

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

Beauty

"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."

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"The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself."

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

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"And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about."

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"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."

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"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature."

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"As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness."

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