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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New... Read full biography of Murray Gell-Mann → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. 0 What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter... → 0 If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the... → 0 So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be... → 0 We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. 0 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... → 0 Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a... → 0 Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. 0 The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can... → 0 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... → 0 In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic... → 0 Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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