We Are Driven By The

Of Course The Word Chaos Is Used In Rather A Vague Sense By A Lot Of Writers, But In Physics It Means A Particular Phenomenon, Namely That In A Nonlinear System The Outcome Is Often Indefinitely, Arbitrarily Sensitive To Tiny Changes In The Initial Condition

For Me, The Study Of These Laws Is Inseparable From A Love Of Nature In All Its Manifestations. The Beauty Of The Basic Laws Of Natural Science, As Revealed In The Study Of Particles And Of The Cosmos, Is Allied To The Litheness Of A Merganser Diving In A Pure Swedish Lake, Or The Grace Of A Dolphin Leaving Shining Trails At Night In The Gulf Of California.

Sustainability Is Living On Nature's Income Rather Than Living On Its Capital.

Think How Hard Physics Would Be If Particles Could Think

The Mathematics Clearly Called For A Set Of Underlying Elementary Objects-at That Time We Needed Three Types Of Them-elementary Objects That Could Be Combined Three At A Time In Different Ways To Make All The Heavy Particles We Knew. ... I Needed A Name For Them And Called Them Quarks, After The Taunting Cry Of The Gulls, "three Quarks For Muster Mark," From Finnegan's Wake By The Irish Writer James Joyce.