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Quotes from Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation — John D. Barrow

1952–2020 England

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Atomism began life as a philosophical idea that would fail virtually every contemporary test of what should be regarded as 'scientific'; yet, eventually, it became the cornerstone of physical science.

Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation (1991)

At present, physicists are enamoured of symmetry and search only for continuous pictures of fundamental physics. Maybe, one day, they will be motivated to look at possible structures of a fundamentally discrete world.

Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation (1991)

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