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““Finiteness is not the only example in string theory of a conjecture that is widely believed but so far unproved.””

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Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

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“So the challenge for any quantum theory of gravity is to give us a deeper understanding of Bekenstein's entropy and Hawking's temperature.”

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In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

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