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"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories."
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
"Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more."
"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
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