David Gross

“Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.”

“When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.”

“Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.”

“Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.”