> [...]
> Still, you have to love a quote like this one: 'Indeed, future
> terrestial historians may judge the late 20th century as a time when
> theorists were like children playing on the seashore, diverting
> themselves with the smoother pebbles or prettier shells of
> superstrings while the great ocean of M-theory lay undiscovered
> before them.'
It is a late-Newton rip-off.
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