Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

American - Physicist | September 15, 1929 -

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

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Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

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As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

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But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

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But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

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For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

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Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

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I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

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I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

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I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

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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 of our small, informal, international fraternity.

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If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

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