Murray Gell-Mann quotes - page 2

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. (Murray Gell-Mann)

You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.

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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.

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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree.

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The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.

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While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists.

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The principal distortion disseminated ... is the implication, or even the explicit claim, that measuring the polarization, circular or plane, of one of the.

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For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

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Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

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

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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole. (Murray Gell-Mann)

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...

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While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.

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Possibly we will find an elegant model, in agreement with observation, that yields the pattern of lepton masses as well as the pattern of quark bare masses and even relates hadrons and leptons. This is our dream; touch us!

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I had barely sat down when he began to tell me... that science writers were "ignoramuses" and a "terrible breed" who invariably got things wrong: only scientists were really qualified to present their work to the masses. As time went on, I felt less offended, since it became clear that Gell-Mann held most of his scientific colleagues in contempt as well.

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The Feynman [Problem-Solving] Algorithm: (1) Write down the problem. (2) Think real hard. (3) Write down the solution.

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Occupation: American Physicist
Born: September 15, 1929
Died: May 24, 2019
Quotes count: 41
Wikipedia: Murray Gell-Mann

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