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"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."

"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."

"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."

"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."

"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."

"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."

"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."

"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."
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