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““Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics: time reversal.””

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

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“When you ask what are electrons and protons I ought to answer that this question is not a profitable one to ask and does…

Paul A.M. Dirac

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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

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“If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity…

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What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in…

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The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

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