The Quark & the Jaguar
“The world of the quark has everything to do / with a jaguar circling in the night.” When titling his only book-length work, the late Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann drew inspiration from a line of poetry by Arthur Sze. Gell-Mann’s curiosity and passion for the world spanned the micro to the macro — from subatomic particles to our collective responsibility to the planet we call home. The Quark & the Jaguar, originally published in 1994, conveys his love for physics and linguistics, ecology and conservation, avian life and complex systems. Between December 15, 2023, and January 5, 2024, the SFI Press edition is available as a free download.
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