Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

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• Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect…
• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
• 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 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…
• The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.
• Think how hard physics would be if particles could think
• Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory…
• The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.
• But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from…
• I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
• I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
• I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
• I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative…
• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic…
• Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special
• Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,…
• Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect
• Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
• So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can…

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