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Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

~David Gross

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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.

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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

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Topics: Ideas Take Verified Which Wonderful Years Years And Years

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The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

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Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

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To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

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Topics: Back Bang Began Beginning Better Big Big Bang Break Current Down Laws Need Our Physics Procedures Push Rules Set So-Called State Than Them Try Understand Universe Which Work

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In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.

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In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.

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Topics: Atom Binds Center Could Describe Dynamics Force Key Lab Mathematical Objects Physically See Strong Suspected Together Unlocking Were Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 19th, 1941

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