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[ScubaFeenD]

Pauli's quote was used as the title of a book - Not Even Wrong - by Peter Woit on String Theory. Woit's thesis is that String Theory and subsequent developments, including superstrings and M-theory, are wonderfully impressive mathematical constructs. But in spite of decades of work by thousands of physicists worldwide, the theory has yet to deliver anything of practical value, or provide predictions that could be tested.

Woit suggests that all of this very expensive work, by generations of physicists, may turn out to have been a waste. If so, it will be a scientific catastrophe, the Physicist's equivalent of Chernobyl or the BP oil spill.

Not even wrong: the failure of ... - Google Books

Yes, clearly I am only aware of the book I own but have not yet read. I was unaware that the title of the book came from your quotation. I will with-hold my thoughts on string theory and other physical principles in the interest of brevity, but I will offer my thanks for such a broadly applicable quote.

 

[Purple Jos]

"I'd like to die young, but not for a very long time."

I can't remember where I read this, but I am pretty sure it was on SB, I could be wrong.

 

[gypsyjim]

I'm not afraid to go fast. It's the crashing and burning that sucks.
Was in my sig line for a while, from a sticker I found and have on my bike helmet

 

[Buoyant1]

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

That explains a lot!

 

[Scott L]

My favorite is wedivebc's who gives credit to another poster...


"The stone-age just called, they want their doubles back." wreckseeker (2007)

 

[Doc Harry]

Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love deeply, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile.
NWGratefulDiver

One of my favorites, too.

 

[Mike Boswell]

I defy anyone to laugh uncontrollably.

 

[David Wilson]

I defy anyone to laugh uncontrollably.

Well, there's the case of Charlotte Green, a newsreader on the BBC's flagship station Radio 4, laughing uncontrollably on the air:
Charlotte Green's diary | From the Guardian | The Guardian
By the way, the four-letter word beginning and ending in "t" is explained in Wikipedia if you're not familiar with it:
http://tinyurl.com/dczy6

 

[gfyrasng]

Being a soldier deployed for a total of 40 months to Iraq, I am partial to mine

 

[Scott L]

Being a soldier deployed for a total of 40 months to Iraq, I am partial to mine