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The Importance of Uncertainty in Physics
I think it's a lot of discomfort for me when people are so certain about what's going to happen. But I think that's the big difference between physicists and economists. And in a sense, we're privileged as physicists because we don't have to talk to politicians or make statements about how the world is supposed to work. There's nothing wrong in failing. We know that physics has had so many revolutions and so many things that people were actually convinced were true turned out to be wrong in the end.