Gerard 't Hooft famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.
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Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.
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If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!
-- Gerard 't Hooft
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.
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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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