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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

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You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point…
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than…
M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste
As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we…
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or…
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology…
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have…
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music…
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to…
In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't…

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People would rather be wrong than be different. — Henry Jacobsen
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to… — Thomas Sankara
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,… — Ezra Stiles

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