The Making of a Physicist: A Talk with Murray Gell-Mann (2003)

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Gell-Mann is one of my favorite scientist, partly because he conforms to my idea of what a scientist is, ie. diverse interests (linguistics, systems science), fun communicator (just check YouTube), very slightly eccentric (Yann LeCun's story on how Gell-Mann pronounced his name), captain of big intellectual debates (the whole field of Complex Systems, or as he called it "Plectics" is fun, fun, fun!) and last but not least a great wine connoisseur (the Wine Spectator made a lengthy interview with him in June 2004). Nine decades well spent on our planet. R.I.P.

You left out sense of humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE

"[If you don't go into engineering] You'll starve."

I feel that, unlike in 1944, this is very relevant these days.

But, like in 1944, some physics education is still relevant !

Also attributed to Gell-Mann: the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

No, not really anything to do with Gell-Mann.

The term was coined by author, film producer, medical doctor Michael Crichton. He explains the irony of the term, saying it came about "because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have"

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