We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
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It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
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