Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.