In their pretty paintings [Monet and Renoir and Degas] wanted to describe the fleeting photons absorbed by the eye, to describe nature entirely in terms of its illumination.
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— Leon Lederman (1993)
p. 406
[T]he universe is the answer, but damned if we know the question.
— Leon Lederman (1993)
p. 403
We can try to imagine the pre-Big Bang universe: timeless, featureless, but in some unimaginable way beholden to the laws of physics.
— Leon Lederman (1993)
p. 402
Democritus: Have you seen anything inside quarks?
Mercedes: [shaking her head, smiling] As far as we can tell, quarks and leptons are as good an approximation to points as you can get.
Democritus: [jumping up and down, clapping, laughing hysterically] Atomos! Finally.
— Leon Lederman (1993)
p. 405
The laws of nature must have existed before even time began in order for the beginning to happen.
— Leon Lederman (1993)
p. 401
The universe is what it is because it was what it was.
— Stephen Hawking (1987)
p. 401
In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.
— Raymond Chandler (1953)
p. 129