As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
Murray Gell-MannOf course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition
Murray Gell-MannI have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
Murray Gell-MannBush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.
Murray Gell-Mann