Enthusiasm Is Followed By Disappointment And Even

Modern Language Must Be Older Than The Cave Paintings And Cave Engravings And Cave Sculptures And Dance Steps In The Soft Clay In The Caves In Western Europe, In The Aurignacian Period Some 35,000 Years Ago, Or Earlier. I Can't Believe They Did All Those Things And Didn't Also Have A Modern Language.

The Mathematics Clearly Called For A Set Of Underlying Elementary Objects-at That Time We Needed Three Types Of Them-elementary Objects That Could Be Combined Three At A Time In Different Ways To Make All The Heavy Particles We Knew. ... I Needed A Name For Them And Called Them Quarks, After The Taunting Cry Of The Gulls, "three Quarks For Muster Mark," From Finnegan's Wake By The Irish Writer James Joyce.

Superstitions Typically Involve Seeing Order Where In Fact There Is None, And Denial Amounts To Rejecting Evidence Of Regularities, Sometimes Even Ones That Are Staring Us In The Face.

If We Look At The Way The Universe Behaves, Quantum Mechanics Gives Us Fundamental, Unavoidable Indeterminacy, So That Alternative Histories Of The Universe Can Be Assigned Probability.

I Do Not Keep Up With The Details Of Particle Physics.