Hugh Everett III Professions : Physicist Born : November 11, 1930 Died : July 19, 1982 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Hugh Everett III [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world. Hugh Everett III mechanic appearance world As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. Hugh Everett III intelligent tree memories If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas. Hugh Everett III smart men thinking Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories. Hugh Everett III resources theory should-have Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicist All Authors
