"We haven't the foggiest idea what drives the new high-temperature
superconductors, or what makes a snowflake, or how the mind or the
economy works. What is more, nothing high energy physics can do will ever be of the slightest direct help in solving these overwhelmingly hard problems"

Philip Anderson, The Case Against the SSC, 1987
(Anderson was one of the theorists who are credited for discovering the "Higgs mechanism" in the early 1960s. He is a 1977 Nobel laureate in Physics for his studies of the electron structure of magnetic systems)

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