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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were…
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My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all…
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From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…
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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,…
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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as…
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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…
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Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are…
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve -…
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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
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If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity…
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Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
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Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I…
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…
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