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The quark model was inspired by a line from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!'

The most important thing in mathematics is to see the connections between different areas.

I have long since ceased to worry about the future. It is sufficient to know that the atom is there.

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

The second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, only with a certain degree of probability.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused—but on a higher level.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A physical theory must be beautiful.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.