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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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Knowledge
Ignorance
Indeed
Product
The Most Important
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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Wonderful
Verified
Years And Years
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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
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Eldest
February
Sons
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I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
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Phenomena
Fundamental
Fundamental Laws
Strongly
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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Quantum
Shocked
Theory
Opposite
Disprove
Field
Occurred
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Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
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Age
Determined
Physicist
Theoretical
Thirteen
Actually
Less
More Or Less
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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
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Founding
Physics
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Theoretical
Mechanics
Nurtured
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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
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Berkeley
Impotence
Supremacy
Theoretical
Period
Early
Graduate
Studies
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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.
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Generous
Nobel
Fortunately
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My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
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Ideas
Mother
Equals
Greatly
Thus
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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.
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Physics
Subjects
Attracted
Avidly
Derived
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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.
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Development
Farce
Reading
Triumph
True Nature
Element
Rarely
Scientific
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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.
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Childhood
Class
Middle
Middle Class
Washington
Early Age
Encouraged
Ours
Suburb
Va
Very Early Age
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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.
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Big Problems
Work Always Progress
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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.
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Completion
Discovery
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Theory
Treatment
Developed
Equation
Field
Immediately
Mechanics
Originally
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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.
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History Books
Physics
Theoretical
Muddled
Depicted
Partly
Victorious
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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.
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Continents
Ran
Theory
Arrive
Explore
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In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.
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Concepts
String Theory
Theory
New Idea
Required
String
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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.
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Break
Physics
Procedures
Universe
Rules
Bang
Began
Big Bang
Current
Push
So-Called
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The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.
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Astronomy
Physics
Fundamental
Main Reason
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When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
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Berkeley
Binding
Brick Wall
Dynamics
Framework
Interaction
Nuclear
Quantum
Radiation
Theory
Weak
Brick
Calculate
Describe
Motion
Roughly
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In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
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Dynamics
Force
Mathematical
Objects
Strong
Unlocking
Physically
Atom
Binds
Center
Describe
Lab
Suspected
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The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.
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Billions
Dense
Hotter
Theory
Universe
Years Ago
Bang
Big Bang
Coming
Course
Period
Early
Smaller
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