If I Have Seen Further Than Others,

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

Enthusiasm Is Followed By Disappointment And Even Depression, And Then By Renewed Enthusiasm.

I Thought Of Killing Myself But Soon Decided That I Could Always Try Mit And Then Kill Myself Later If It Was That Bad But That I Couldn't Commit Suicide And Then Try Mit Afterwards. The Two Operations, Suicide And Going To Mit, Don't Commute.

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.

We Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable Curiosity Of The Scientist, And Our Work Is A Delightful Game.