We Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable

Modern Education Is Like Being Taken To The World's Greatest Restaurant & Being Forced To Eat The Menu.

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

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.

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?

The World Of The Quark Has Everything To Do With A Jaguar Circling In The Night.