Murray Gell-Mann

"We should worry less about what we know and more about what we don't."

"The regularities in nature point to something deeper than mere happenstance."

"Collaboration across disciplines has led to some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs."

"The universe rewards both technical skill and imaginative thinking."

"Understanding comes in degrees - few questions have complete and final answers."

"Pattern recognition is both a tremendous strength and a common source of error in human thinking."

"The deep structure of reality is mathematical, which remains profoundly mysterious."

"Innovation requires the courage to challenge established thinking."

"Nature is economical - it uses the same principles at all scales."

"The physicist's job is to find the simplest law that explains the phenomena."

"Our descriptions of the world are approximations - increasingly good approximations, but still approximations."

"Curiosity is the engine that drives scientific progress."

"The universe seems indifferent to our desires, but we can understand its patterns."

"Power without knowledge is dangerous; knowledge without wisdom is empty."

"We inherit both the achievements and the mistakes of previous generations of scientists."

"The frontier of science is where the most interesting questions live."

"Small differences in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes."

"The scientist's responsibility includes communicating findings clearly to the public."

"Reality has a consistency to it that our descriptions must respect."

"Innovation flourishes when people from different backgrounds collaborate on problems."

"The most important tool a scientist has is a questioning mind."

"We are not separate from nature - we are part of the cosmic process."

"Understanding the past is essential for predicting and shaping the future."

"The universe contains more strangeness than we are prepared to believe."

"Precision in language is essential for clear scientific thinking."

"Every new discovery opens up new territories of ignorance."

"The symmetries of nature tell us something profound about how the universe is constructed."

"Failure is often more instructive than success in scientific endeavors."

"We must distinguish between the limitations of our theories and the limitations of reality."

"The universe operates with a kind of profound elegance that never stops being surprising."