"Actually, I was more or less determined to……" — David Gross

"Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen."

— David Gross

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22 Quotes by David Gross

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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…
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas…
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from…
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of…
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce…
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical…
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the…
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware…
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…
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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