If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to … - Steven Weinberg

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In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your breath a minute and see what's really been going on. We do have reason to feel good about the fact we've made progress.

Steven Weinberg

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.

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It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

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