Murray Gell-Mann Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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 object; that's how we measure it.”

“Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.”

“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 happen often.”

“When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.”

“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.”