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

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

"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

"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."

"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."

"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."

"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."

"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."

"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."

"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"

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