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.

-Murray Gell-Mann

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The Mathematics Clearly Called For A Set

Murray Gell-Mann

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.

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Science

Names

Nomenclature

I Thought Of Killing Myself But Soon Decided That I Could Always Try Mit And Then Kill Myself Later If It Was That Bad But That I Couldn't Commit Suicide And Then Try Mit Afterwards. The Two Operations, Suicide And Going To Mit, Don't Commute.

Suicide

Two

Trying