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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
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