“The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and too hard to come up with theoretical advances that will address some of the things it leaves unexplained.”

—  Peter Woit

[Peter Woit, w:Peter Woit, The Trouble with Physics, Not Even Wrong, math.columbia.edu, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=451, 28 August 2006]
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