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In the 1930s Landau was already saying, "I am one of the few universal physicists"; after the death of Enrico Fermi, this became "I am the last of the universal physicists".

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It is important to do everything with passion, it embellishes life enormously.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

People who hear of some extraordinary phenomenon start proposing to explain it with improbable hypotheses. First consider the simplest explanation: that it's all nonsense.

Perhaps the greatest triumph of the human genius is that one can understand things that he can no longer imagine.

The most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

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