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- is the only game in town to make it sound like the creed of Islam, right? Anyone found trying to say that only string theory M theory can and should be researched at the most fundamental level. And the quantum gravity is the holy grail when there's no trace of this phrase before 1973, 72 is committing a grave ethical sin at a professional level. Now, something I never talked about before to the best of my ability to remember is something that I only heard from Richard Feynman. Richard— Geometric Unity: Unifying All Forces + Generations | Eric Weinstein
- physics is concerned, wrong or false. No, yeah. True or false as far as physics is concerned. But then once we set down our assumptions, is everything else we say, is it actually conclusive? Is that actually at least compatible with what we said? And there you need to be very careful because many things are plausible, but just not correct. And if we start hand waving, it's always very cool, right? It's a little bit, sometimes I blame it on Feynman, who was,— Frederic Schuller: The Physicist Who Derived Gravity From Electromagnetism
- Wheeler," he always called him Professor Wheeler. I called him Johnny. Feynman says, "I remember one day Professor Wheeler and I were doing a calculation together. Professor Wheeler went from this step to that step. I didn't see how he got there. He showed me. As he'd showed me, he said, 'Little steps for little people.'" Now, John Wheeler was the most polite person I ever knew. I never saw him do anything impolite like that. Now, it's clear that Feynman was full— Greatest Mysteries of Gravity | Brian Greene & Kip Thorne | World Science Festival