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Ideally, physicists would prefer a single entity … All of the known particles would arise from this fundamental entity behaving in different ways, like different notes played on a bugle.

Robert Oerter (2006)



[Special relativity] was the beginning of a fundamental shift of philosophy in science, from asking questions of what is to asking what can be known.

Robert Oerter (2006)



With the quark model in hand, the entire subatomic zoo suddenly started to make sense.

Robert Oerter (2006)