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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."

"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."

"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."

"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."

"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

"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."

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

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

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