--- title: "11 Science Quotes By Murray Gell-Mann" description: "11 Science quotes by Murray Gell-Mann. Plus more from Murray Gell-Mann and more Science sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg" --- > [But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discovered-that-static-tends-to/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg) > [We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-curiosity-of-the-scientist-and/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/murray-gell-mann-12560_curiosity_we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-cu_2501989.jpg) > [Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generation-of-theorists-into-thinking/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/murray-gell-mann-12560_brainwashed_niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generatio_2399659.jpg) > [You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i-started-to-study-physical/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomers_you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i_1659781.jpg) > [As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-once-proud-and-humble-at-the/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/murray-gell-mann-12560_feels_as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-onc_2251647.jpg) > [For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-inseparable-from-a-love-of-nature/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-insepa_1199802.jpg) > [Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-because-they-are-easily-expressed/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/murray-gell-mann-12560_beauty_perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-becau_2821211.jpg) > [One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-working-in-our-field/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/murray-gell-mann-12560_adventure_one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-wo_1406926.jpg) > [The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set-of-underlying-elementary/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/murray-gell-mann-12560_cry_the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set_2147618.jpg) > [ My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands \[and I\] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-theory-in-many-lands-and-i-are/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/murray-gell-mann-12560_colleagues_my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-the_95425.jpg) > [“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-to-the-fundamental/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/murray-gell-mann-12560_complexity_in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-t_1083981.jpg) ## Other authors on Science - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 320 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-degrasse-tyson-70683.jpg) Neil deGrasse Tyson 277 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/neil-degrasse-tyson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-sagan-20994.jpg) Carl Sagan 268 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/carl-sagan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 181 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/richard-dawkins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-p-feynman-78819.jpg) Richard P. Feynman 135 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/richard-p-feynman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 118 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/bertrand-russell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-hawking-87021.jpg) Stephen Hawking 104 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/stephen-hawking/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 102 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-jay-gould-87041.jpg) Stephen Jay Gould 90 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/stephen-jay-gould/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-isaac-asimov-44668.jpg) Isaac Asimov 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/isaac-asimov/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-darwin-22208.jpg) Charles Darwin 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/charles-darwin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 87 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/frederick-lenz/) ## More by Murray Gell-Mann > [Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/of-course-the-word-chaos-is-used-in-rather-a-vague-sense-by-a-lot-of/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [ My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands \[and I\] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-theory-in-many-lands-and-i-are/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Think how hard physics would be if particles could think](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/think-how-hard-physics-would-be-if-particles-could-think/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/sustainability-is-living-on-nature-s-income-rather-than-living-on-its/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discovered-that-static-tends-to/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/i-am-frequently-astonished-that-it-so-often-results-in-correct/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/superstitions-typically-involve-seeing-order-where-in-fact-there-is/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/i-thought-of-killing-myself-but-soon-decided-that-i-could-always-try/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/in-fact-any-experiment-that-measures-a-quantum-effect-is-one-in-which/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/so-the-old-copenhagen-interpretation-needs-to-be-generalized-needs-to/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/enthusiasm-is-followed-by-disappointment-and-even-depression-and-then/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/if-i-have-seen-further-than-others-it-is-because-i-am-surrounded-by/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/if-we-look-at-the-way-the-universe-behaves-quantum-mechanics-gives-us/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/now-what-that-means-is-that-there-is-fundamental-indeterminacy-from/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) > [Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/just-because-things-get-a-little-dingy-at-the-subatomic-level-doesn-t/) [Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/#itemlist", "name": "11 Science Quotes By Murray Gell-Mann", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discovered-that-static-tends-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-curiosity-of-the-scientist-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/murray-gell-mann-12560_curiosity_we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-cu_2501989.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/murray-gell-mann-12560_curiosity_we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-cu_2501989.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/murray-gell-mann-12560_curiosity_we-are-driven-by-the-usual-insatiable-cu_2501989.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generation-of-theorists-into-thinking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/murray-gell-mann-12560_brainwashed_niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generatio_2399659.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/murray-gell-mann-12560_brainwashed_niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generatio_2399659.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/murray-gell-mann-12560_brainwashed_niels-bohr-brainwashed-a-whole-generatio_2399659.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i-started-to-study-physical/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomers_you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i_1659781.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomers_you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i_1659781.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomers_you-know-there-was-a-time-just-before-i_1659781.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-once-proud-and-humble-at-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/murray-gell-mann-12560_feels_as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-onc_2251647.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/murray-gell-mann-12560_feels_as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-onc_2251647.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/murray-gell-mann-12560_feels_as-a-theoretical-physicist-i-feel-at-onc_2251647.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-inseparable-from-a-love-of-nature/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-insepa_1199802.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-insepa_1199802.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_for-me-the-study-of-these-laws-is-insepa_1199802.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-because-they-are-easily-expressed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/murray-gell-mann-12560_beauty_perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-becau_2821211.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/murray-gell-mann-12560_beauty_perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-becau_2821211.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/murray-gell-mann-12560_beauty_perhaps-we-see-equations-as-simple-becau_2821211.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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, or elegance.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-working-in-our-field/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/murray-gell-mann-12560_adventure_one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-wo_1406926.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/murray-gell-mann-12560_adventure_one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-wo_1406926.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/murray-gell-mann-12560_adventure_one-thing-that-makes-the-adventure-of-wo_1406926.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, \"Three quarks for Muster mark,\" from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set-of-underlying-elementary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/murray-gell-mann-12560_cry_the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set_2147618.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/murray-gell-mann-12560_cry_the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set_2147618.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/murray-gell-mann-12560_cry_the-mathematics-clearly-called-for-a-set_2147618.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-theory-in-many-lands-and-i-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/murray-gell-mann-12560_colleagues_my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-the_95425.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/murray-gell-mann-12560_colleagues_my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-the_95425.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/murray-gell-mann-12560_colleagues_my-colleagues-in-elementary-particle-the_95425.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In 1963, when I assigned the name \"quark\" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been \"kwork.\" Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word \"quark\" in the phrase \"Three quarks for Muster Mark.\" Since \"quark\" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with \"Mark,\" as well as \"bark\" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as \"kwork.\" But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the \"portmanteau words\" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry \"Three quarks for Muster Mark\" might be \"Three quarts for Mister Mark,\" in which case the pronunciation \"kwork\" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Murray Gell-Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-to-the-fundamental/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/murray-gell-mann-12560_complexity_in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-t_1083981.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/murray-gell-mann-12560_complexity_in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-t_1083981.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/murray-gell-mann-12560_complexity_in-1963-when-i-assigned-the-name-quark-t_1083981.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In 1963, when I assigned the name \"quark\" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound…” — Murray Gell-Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/", "name": "Science Quotes by Murray Gell-Mann", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/murray-gell-mann-12560_astronomy_but-when-researchers-at-bell-labs-discov_194370.jpg" }, "description": "11 Science quotes by Murray Gell-Mann. Plus more from Murray Gell-Mann and more Science sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Science", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Murray Gell-Mann", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/murray-gell-mann/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```