“On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.”

How to become a bad theoretical physicist http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theoristbad.html

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Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner 1946

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