If You Know The Wavefunction Of The

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.

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.

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.

If You Know The Wavefunction Of The Universe, Why Aren't You Rich?

Our Planet Doesn't Seem To Be The Result Of Anything Very Special