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John Clive Ward Quotes

1924–2000 Australia

John Clive Ward (1 August 1924 – 6 May 2000) was a British-Australian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and renormalization theory.

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Dynamical variables are what count in physics, not coordinate or gauge transformations.

One day I had the idea of radiation implosion. As in all ideas that have ever popped up in my head, there is no way I can trace the source.

Almost all the serious achievements are simple in principle... the ideas must be sufficiently simple.

The inner mysteries of quantum mechanics require a willingness to extend one’s mental processes into a strange world of phantom possibilities, endlessly branching into more and more abstruse chains of coupled logical networks, endlessly extending themselves forward and even backwards in time.

(\left|x\right\rang \left|y\right\rang- \left|y\right\rang \left|x\right\rang) ... was my first lesson in quantum mechanics, and in a very real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Clive Ward (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.