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

Murray Gell Mann

Complexity

Diversity

Evolution

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

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.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Murray Gell Mann

Physics

Talk

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Murray Gell Mann

Science

Thought

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

Murray Gell Mann

Astronomy

Sky

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

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

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Results

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

Murray Gell Mann

Physics

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

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Measure

Theory

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Murray Gell Mann

Universe

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

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.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

Murray Gell Mann

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