Sidney Coleman Quotes

Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. March 1937 – 18. November 2007
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Famous Sidney Coleman Quotes

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

Sidney Coleman

Said during one of his lectures at Harvard University http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html.

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

Sidney Coleman

Quantum Mechanics in Your Face http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/video.html, a lecture given by Sidney Coleman at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society (Apr. 9, 1994)

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

Sidney Coleman

Said during one of his lectures at Harvard University http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html.

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