"The ideal theory of everything, in the minds of physicists... is a mathematical system of uncommon tidiness and rigor, which may, if all works out correctly, have the ability to accommodate the physical facts... Perhaps physicists will one day find a theory of such compelling beauty that its truth cannot be denied; truth will be beauty... because, in the absence of any means to make practical tests, what is beautiful is declared ipso facto to be the truth. This theory of everything will be... a myth... a story that makes sense within its own terms, offers explanations for everything... but can be neither tested nor disproved... an explanation that everyone agrees on because it is convenient to agree on it, not because its truth can be demonstrated. This... will indeed spell the end of physics... not because physics has at last been able to explain everything... but because physics has reached the end of all things it has the power to explain."
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David Lindley, The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory (1993) p. 255.
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