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• I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
• My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were…
• My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all…
• From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science…
• The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,…
• Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as…
• The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
• Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…
• Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are…
• Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
• Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve -…
• Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

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