What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not… — 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
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests… — 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
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact… — 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… — 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
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — 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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