Murray Gell-Mann

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#beauty #physics #science #theory #beauty

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

#i #i do #keep #particle #physics

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#bell #come #discovered #field #labs

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

#laws #love #manifestations #me #nature

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

#astonished #correct #experimental #frequently #i

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#adopt #behavior #comes #free #free will

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

#boy #complexity #diversity #evolution #i

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#anything #becoming #dizzy #only #physics