Quotes by Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann

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.

Honor

Humble

Proud

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Biology

Diversity

Tasks

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.

Kind

Subjectivity

Views

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

Depression

Disappointment

Enthusiasm

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Compulsory

Forbidden

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.

Ideas

Reality

Swag

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

Predictions

Results

Sonnet

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

Details

Particle Physics

Physics

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.

Fraternity

Land

Thinking

I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn’t commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don’t commute.

Suicide

Trying

Two

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Dizzy

Done

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Effort

Enthusiasm

Equipment

Facts

Far Away

Forbidden

Fraternity

Garden

Honor

Humble

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Ifs

Individualism

Individuality

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Jaguars

Jobs

Kind

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Knows

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Quotes by Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann

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.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

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.

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

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

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.

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

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

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.

I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn’t commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don’t commute.

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