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"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
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"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love."
"Many lies lie between one truth."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"
"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
"People are too complicated to have simple labels."
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"For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations."
"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."
"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality."
"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."
"Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy."
"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
"I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity."
"If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."
"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."
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