One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity,… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles… — 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 Image
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 Image
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. — 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 our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a…” quote by Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b04/murray-gell-mann-12560_colleagues_my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-the_95425.jpg)
