"The progress of science is much more muddled……" — David Gross
"The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious."
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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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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce…
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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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