“It has been my experience that good theoretical physics is empowering, in that it enables thinking to take place that would otherwise not occur, and, in its highest form, facilitates experiments that would otherwise not be done.”

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American physicist 1950

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

“"Some fool has put the head of this nail on the wrong end." "You idiot, it's for the opposite wall!" To be sure, if the space of physical objects allowed motions of translation only, and not also rotations. That space has such geometry is a fantasy; experience shows otherwise. It is only experience that makes this complaint and the rejoinder a dialogue of madmen.”

Abraham Kaplan (1918–1993) American philosopher

Source: "The Conduct of Inquiry", p. 35.

“I think that, without experimental checks, physics can — and has — gone off the rails ... experiment has to be the ultimate decider of what is good physics.”

Antony Garrett Lisi (1968) American theoretical physicist

[Garrett Lisi: An EXCEPTIONAL Theory of Everything LIVE CHAT, January 21, 2021, YouTube, Dr Brian Keating, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZxpMTzRP4] (quote at 20:28 of 54:54)

“What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.”

Celia Green (1935) British philosopher

The Lost Cause (2003)