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Particles Quotes by Murray Gell-Mann
- 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…
- Think how hard physics would be if particles could think
- I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
- 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…
- What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere…
- For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of…
- My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is…
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- In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi
- As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. — Henry David Thoreau