Quotes About Lederman

Lederman is also a charismatic personality, famous among his colleagues for his humor and storytelling ability. One of his favorite anecdotes relates the time when, as a graduate student, he arranged to bump into Albert Einstein while walking the grounds at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The great man listened patiently as the eager youngster explained the particle-physics research he was doing at Columbia, and then said with a smile, "That is not interesting.

The Born interpretation of the Schrödinger equation is the single most dramatic and major change in our world view since Newton.

Schrodinger, for one, rejected it vehemently, regretting having devised the equation that gave rise to it.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.