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12 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think there’s something… It’s an event. You’re just watching. You’re not doing anything, you’re just looking at it, so maybe you could just recreate it.”
02 / belief
“Certainly writing books, I realized also how many of our words are based on how we see the world, and that’s true.”
03 / belief
“I think I have this underlying belief that it should make sense, even though the world comes at you in many ways and tells you nothing should make sense, but if you believe that it makes sense and you look for underlying logic.”
04 / belief
“You could try to jump in and say I have a theory that I think is so perfect that I can predict everything from it or at least predict some salient features from it.”
05 / belief
“Sometimes I do think… You’re not asking this question, but sometimes I do think when I think about some of these conflicts, sometimes it’s just good to have a project that people work on together.”
06 / belief
“The scary thing is that they look really cool. It’s true that you have that, yes, this is scary, but you also have, this is cool feeling and I think we have to get around that because I think that yes, you can be in that, but I’m not sure that’s going to make people scared.”
07 / belief
“I think that has been… Maybe not more, but there’s certainly a lot. I think, again, the kinds of questions you’re asking are usually different.”
08 / belief
“I think we always have in our head maybe that we’d like to find that, but I have to… I might not seem so, but I think I’m more humble than a lot of physicists.”
09 / belief
“There’s a lot more to see. Part of it has to do with how far we think we can go.”
10 / belief
“Sometimes it’s hard to forget the role of physics, but I think Wilson said it really well when he said when they were building Fermilab, it was like this won’t defend the country, but it’ll make it worth defending.”
11 / belief
“I think to talk about any science in terms of success and failure often misses the point because there’s not some absolute thing.”
12 / belief
“In my book, I make jokes about, it’s like when we think about a building, we think about the architect, we think about the high level, but we forget about all the workers that did all the grunt work.”