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

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

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But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: September 15th, 1929

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