Anthony Zee Quotes

China, Writer
June 7, 1945

Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Also known as Physicist

Welcome to the strange world of the quantum, where one cannot determine how a particle gets from here to there. Physicists are reduced to bookies, posting odds on the various possibilities.

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Let there be an SU(5) Yang-Mills theory with all its gauge bosons, let the symmetry be broken down spontaneously, and let all but one of the remaining massless gauge bosons be sold into infrared slavery. That one last gauge boson is my favorite. Let him rush forth to illuminate all of my creations!

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- Favorite
- Creations
- Boson

Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself.

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- Truth
- Worry
- Beauty
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

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In science, one tries to say what no one else has ever said before. In poetry, one tries to say what everyone else has already said, but better. This explains, in essence, why good poetry is as rare as good science.

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- Science
- Poetry
- Explains