Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.