"It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling."
— Edward Witten

January 1, 1970

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Physicists from the United StatesMacArthur FellowsNational Medal of Science laureatesScientists from BaltimoreFields Medalists
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as quoted by John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (1996)