What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
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It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
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