Nathan Seiberg quotes

“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“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.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“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.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“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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“I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.”
-- Nathan Seiberg

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.”

“All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.”

“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”