Nathan Seiberg Quotes

#1. I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

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#2. What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

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#3. The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

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#4. Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.

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#5. This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.

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#6. We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

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