List of Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

You Know, There Was A Time, Just Before I Started To Study Physical Science, When Astronomers Thought That Systems Such As We Have Here In The Solar System Required A Rare Triple Collision Of Stars

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.

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 Used Also In Cases Where There Is Plenty Of Individuality And History

I Do Not Keep Up With The Details Of Particle Physics.

If We Look At The Way The Universe Behaves, Quantum Mechanics Gives Us Fundamental, Unavoidable Indeterminacy, So That Alternative Histories Of The Universe Can Be Assigned Probability.

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 Am Frequently Astonished That It So Often Results In Correct Predictions Of Experimental Results.

Just Because Things Get A Little Dingy At The Subatomic Level Doesn't Mean All Bets Are Off.

Planets Are Too Dim To Be Detected With Existing Equipment, Far Away, Except In These Very Special Circumstances Where They're Seen By Their Gravitational Effect

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

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.

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.