"Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of……" — David Gross
"Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph."
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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.
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and…
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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…
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From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from…
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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of…
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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical…
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the…
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Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware…
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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…
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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is…
— Alain Badiou
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
— Dave Barry
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was…
— James Van Der Beek
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
— Ben Bernanke
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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