Robert B. Laughlin Quote

I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot be forseen but must be discovered, for their subtlety and complexity transcends the present state of science. The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.


Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)


I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot...

I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot...

I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot...

I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot...