Murray Gell-Mann

1929–2019 · American physicist

Topics: complexity, physics, learning

• 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!

  — Murray Gell-Mann

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

  — Murray Gell-Mann

• If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.

  — Murray Gell-Mann

• 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.

  — Murray Gell-Mann

• 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.

  — Murray Gell-Mann