--- title: "1 String Theorists Quotes By Gordon White" description: "1 String Theorists quotes by Gordon White. Plus more from Gordon White and more String Theorists sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/gordon-white-19927_science_particularly-in-physics-science-s-fifty_2167763.jpg" --- > [“Particularly in physics, science’s fifty-year drift into the unscientific has recently reached a surreal apogee. String theory is widely considered ‘the only game in town’ when it comes to cosmology yet it has not made a single testable prediction about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/particularly-in-physics-science-s-fifty-year-drift-into-the/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/gordon-white-19927_science_particularly-in-physics-science-s-fifty_2167763.jpg) ## Other authors on String Theorists ## More by Gordon White > [“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into whatever preferred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/particularly-when-it-comes-to-chaos-magic-building-your-own-optimal/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“At the paranormalist end, Jacques Vallée once famously remarked “just because a message comes from Heaven doesn’t mean it’s not stupid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/at-the-paranormalist-end-jacques-vall-e-once-famously-remarked-just/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“You are certainly free to join whatever nineteenth-century swingers club masquerading as a magical order you like, but do it on your own time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/you-are-certainly-free-to-join-whatever-nineteenth-century-swingers/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“Anyone else who misspent their largely-sexless adolescence playing role playing games would be aware that games nights are often accompanied by peculiar states of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/anyone-else-who-misspent-their-largely-sexless-adolescence-playing/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“The very best magicians are scavengers of the useful and banishers of the useless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-very-best-magicians-are-scavengers-of-the-useful-and-banishers-of/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the instantaneous arrival…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/terence-mckenna-once-famously-said-that-science-asks-give-us-one-free/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“The magicians of the Golden Dawn built a history that now appears inaccurate but was cutting edge for its time. They haunted the British…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-built-a-history-that-now-appears/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“Live an active life closer to nature and you will be physically and psychologically healthy. Team Animism wins again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/live-an-active-life-closer-to-nature-and-you-will-be-physically-and/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“Anyone with even trifling experience with spirit work will have seen how they often make their presence, wishes or intentions known via a string…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/anyone-with-even-trifling-experience-with-spirit-work-will-have-seen/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/materialism-it-must-be-understood-is-a-premise-of-science-not-a/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“As it got away from its founders, chaos magic came to mean ‘doing whatever you want’ in popular parlance, which is probably close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/as-it-got-away-from-its-founders-chaos-magic-came-to-mean-doing/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“One end accepts too much, the other end accepts too little, and there in the middle is the western magical tradition exemplified by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/one-end-accepts-too-much-the-other-end-accepts-too-little-and-there/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/history-may-well-be-written-by-the-victors-but-victors-change-and-if/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“I am the Headless Daimon with sight in my feet; I am the mighty one who possesses the immortal fire; I am the truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/i-am-the-headless-daimon-with-sight-in-my-feet-i-am-the-mighty-one/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) > [“It is more useful for the magician to consider living systems not as some unaware little eddies in a universal consciousness field, but as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/it-is-more-useful-for-the-magician-to-consider-living-systems-not-as/) [Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/string-theorists/gordon-white/#itemlist", "name": "1 String Theorists Quotes By Gordon White", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Particularly in physics, science’s fifty-year drift into the unscientific has recently reached a surreal apogee. 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