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String theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.

Drawn from what Lisa Randall said

Subjectshumilityphysics
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humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.

physics Fundamental physics: unification, relativity and quantum mechanics, and whether string theory is still the candidate.

What Lisa Randall actually said

  1. Lisa Randall Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B
    I do think that string theorists were a bit overly ambitious… Not overly ambitious, but a little bit overly arrogant in the beginning, thinking they could solve many problems that they weren’t going to solve.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 46:54 plays here

    ↗Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403youtube.com

    3 Dec 2023 · video · 59m · spoken · official transcript

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