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People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics

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The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

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Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know.
Coleman used to start his field theory course saying this

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: March 7, 1937
Died: November 18, 2007 (aged 70)
Bio: Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is notable for his research in high-energy theoretical physics.

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