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John Moffat
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Science Quotes by John Moffat (2 quotes)
Any fundamental theory of physics is beautiful. If it isn’t, it’s probably wrong.
— John Moffat
In the University of Toronto Bulletin, May 5, 1986.
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
— John Moffat
In the University of Toronto Bulletin (5 May 1986). This quote has been widely copied and re-copied (each time with its misspelling of straitjacket!), for example in Rob Kaplan, Science Says (2001), 78. However, note that the metaphor is not original; it was expressed by Richard Feynman more than two decades earlier.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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