Murray Gell-Mann Quotes

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Murray Gell-Mann

Profession : Physicist

Birth : September 15, 1929

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Murray Gell-Mann

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

Murray Gell-Mann

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Murray Gell-Mann

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.

Murray Gell-Mann

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.

Murray Gell-Mann