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> [I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/i-m-so-old-i-can-remember-when-the-dead-sea-was-only-sick/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

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## More by Leon M. Lederman

> [ He \[Democritus\] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/he-democritus-is-probably-best-known-for-two-of-the-most/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/by-the-grace-of-aec-bnl-god-green-and-hayworth-alphabetical-order-we/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/theorists-write-all-the-popular-books-on-science-heinz-pagels-frank/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/particle-physics-suffers-more-from-being-infected-by-the-socio/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-sequence-of-theorist-experimenter-and-discovery-has-occasionally/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/science-should-have-no-less-lofty-a-goal-my-ambition-is-to-live-to/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/democritus-s-work-on-the-void-was-revolutionary/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-history-of-atomism-is-one-of-reductionism-the-effort-to-reduce/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/my-children-have-often-asked-me-why-i-never-received-a-nobel-prize-i/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/during-an-intense-period-of-lab-work-the-outside-world-vanishes-and/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-aether-invented-by-isaac-newton-reinvented-by-james-clerk-maxwell/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/experimenters-don-t-come-in-late-they-never-went-home/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/i-started-out-as-a-molecules-kid-in-high-school-and-early-college-i/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/i-m-so-old-i-can-remember-when-the-dead-sea-was-only-sick/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

> [ Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative \[sic\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/where-do-we-stand-today-compared-to-greece-circa-400-b-c-today-s/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

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