“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental phys...” — Murray Gell-Mann Quote

“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”

“So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.”

“I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.”

“I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.”

“Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.”

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

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.”

“Many vital questions would have remained unanswered and unresolved without philosophy.”

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”

“It seems that all eukaryotic cells either have, or once had (and then lost) mitochondria. In other words, possession of mitochondria is a sine qua non of the eukaryotic condition”

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”