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. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
Well, I don’t like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
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. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
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. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. Murray Gell-Mann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
