David Gross

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

— David Gross

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve -…

— David Gross

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

— David Gross

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

— David Gross

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,…

— David Gross

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as…

— David Gross

In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the…

— David Gross

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology.…

— David Gross

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

— David Gross

“From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…

— David Gross

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

— David Gross

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…

— David Gross

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all…

— David Gross

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were…

— David Gross

The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and…

— David Gross

Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…

— David Gross

The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where…

— David Gross

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are…

— David Gross

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

— David Gross

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

— David Gross

When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the…

— David Gross

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

— David Gross

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with…

— David Gross

To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work…

— David Gross