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It is with Isaac Newton that the modern dream of a final theory really begins.
Dreams of a Final Theory (1992)
Despite its value to Einstein and Heisenberg, positivism has done as much harm as good. But, unlike the mechanical worldview, positivism has preserved its heroic aura, so that it survives to do damage in the future.
Dreams of a Final Theory (1994)
The important thing for the progress of physics is not the decision that a theory is true, but the decision that it is worth taking seriously—worth teaching to graduate students, worth writing textbooks about, above all, worth incorporating into one’s own research.
Dreams of a Final Theory (1992)
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.
Dreams of a Final Theory (1993)