But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy,… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share
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