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David Gross quotes: Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

David Gross quotes: The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

David Gross quotes: Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

David Gross quotes: Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

David Gross quotes: Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

David Gross quotes: Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

David Gross quotes: I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

David Gross quotes: Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

David Gross quotes: I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

David Gross quotes: I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

David Gross quotes: My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.