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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

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

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

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

— Murray Gell-Mann

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

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

— Murray Gell-Mann

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy…

— Murray Gell-Mann

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“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

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

— Murray Gell-Mann

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

— Murray Gell-Mann

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

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

— Murray Gell-Mann