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If I Have Seen Further Than Others, It Is Because I Am Surrounded By Dwarfs.

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

My Colleagues In Elementary Particle Theory In Many Lands [and I] Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable Curiosity Of The Scientist, And Our Work Is A Delightful Game. I Am Frequently Astonished That It So Often Results In Correct Predictions Of Experimental Results. How Can It Be That Writing Down A Few Simple And Elegant Formulae, Like Short Poems Governed By Strict Rules Such As Those Of The Sonnet Or The Waka, Can Predict Universal Regularities Of Nature?

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.

The Mathematics Clearly Called For A Set Of Underlying Elementary Objects-at That Time We Needed Three Types Of Them-elementary Objects That Could Be Combined Three At A Time In Different Ways To Make All The Heavy Particles We Knew. ... I Needed A Name For Them And Called Them Quarks, After The Taunting Cry Of The Gulls, "three Quarks For Muster Mark," From Finnegan's Wake By The Irish Writer James Joyce.