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Sidney Coleman Quotes

1937–2007 United States

Sidney Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 November 2007) was an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann.

United States
Academics
Physicists

Random Sidney Coleman quote

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People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics

Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know.

It has been said, and wisely said, that every successful physical theory swallows its predecessors whole.

Quantum Mechanics in Your Face (1994)

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sidney Coleman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.