David Gross
Physicist
1941-02-19
Books by David Gross
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The Glory and the Hardships of the Medical Life
Being the Valedictory Address Delivered at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, March 11, 1875, Before the Trustees, Faculty, and Students of the Jefferson Medical College ...
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Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research
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Quotes by David Gross
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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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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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Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
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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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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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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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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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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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