I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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.
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.