Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
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In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
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My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
