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"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."

— Murray Gell-Mann

We Are Driven By The Usual

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

— Murray Gell-Mann
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Murray Gell-Mann delivered this as part of his Nobel Prize Banquet Speech on 10 December 1969 in Stockholm, after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the classification of elementary particles and their interactions. He had received the prize for developing the concept of strangeness and the Eightfold Way, which brought order to the chaotic proliferation of newly discovered particles in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 1969

Entropy can be regarded as a measure of ignorance.
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