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““Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.””

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

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“Here's a simplified version of what the Stanford group did. They started with a much-studied kind of string theory-a flat four-dimensional spacetime with a…

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“The current crisis in particle physics springs from the fact that the theories have gone beyond the standard model in the last thirty years…

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“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as…

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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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