String theory has produced no significant new ideas and may be a dead field.

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• A correct unifying theory of physics would, on first appearing publicly, look statistically likely to be wrong. MSMarcus du Sautoy1 Jun 2013physics
• A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences. LRLisa Randall3 Dec 2023physics
• A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one. NBNoam Brown26 Jun 2026physics
• A purchase is not caused by convincing someone to want your product. RSRob Snyder30 Oct 2026physics
• A theory of everything would not finish physics: Turing and Church laid down computation's theory of everything in the 1930s and we have spent ninety years exploring the consequences. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026physics

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