“Nobody knows what dark matter is. It is another deep mystery waiting to be explored. We know only that it is there, and that it weighs more than the stuff that we can see.”

— Freeman Dyson

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

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theoretical physicist and mathematician 1923

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