"Good wrong ideas are extremely scarce... and good wrong ideas that even remotely rival the majesty of string theory have never been seen."
— 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)