Three Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

— Murray Gell-Mann

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

— 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…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

— Murray Gell-Mann

If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.

— Murray Gell-Mann