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Quite undeservedly, the ether has acquired a bad name.

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In science... the ultimate judges are not experts but experiments.

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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself — nature does it for you.

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The whole idea of science is really to listen to nature, in her own language, as part of a continuing dialogue.

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I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy— of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

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The answer to the ancient question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.

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It is delightful in itself when we are able to interpret features of the present as signs confirming our understanding of the past.

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As the idea of permanence of objects has faded, the idea of permanence of physical laws has become better established and more powerful.

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In the past scientists have repeatedly reached intellectual closure on inadequate pictures of the universe, and underestimated its scale.

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If the universe contains everything that exists, what can be outside it? If the answer is Things that don't exist, then multiverse becomes an idea in the domain of psychology, not physics.

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We have heard that nature can sing some strange and unfamiliar songs. In coming to appreciate these songs, we develop a heightened perception... leavened by an admixture of our own creation...

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An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

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