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Speaking as someone with a physics degree, I like to quote Peter Thiel (for once):

> This is why physics Ph.D’s are notoriously difficult to work with; because they know fundamental things, they think they know all things.

- http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...

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This kind of discussion always brings J. B. S. Haldane to my mind:

- Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.[1]

[1] Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286

Perhaps also why physicists can be dangerous in Finance. They have all the math skills, but they can also have a little too much faith in those skills.

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