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- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.
- Determined
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020