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, General status: summary and outlook (1983)

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Topics: physics