Quotations

"What I'm doing here is I'm writing 4 as 2 times 2, which you can check on your calculator." - Eric Carlson, to his Quantum Mechanics 741 class.

"Surely if we use fancy mathematics you should get the answer you already learned." - Natalie Holzwarth, about Lagrangians to find the shortest path between two points in a plane

"Man tries to commit suicide; is quantum mechanics hand of God?" - Eric Carlson, describing a newspaper headline if cliffs acted like quantum potential wells

"I'm sort of getting Lagrange's equation through the back door. We'll get it through the front door eventually. But for now, we're getting it through the back door - just to be perverse." - Natalie Holzwarth

"And then there are people like Natalie [solid state], who believe the charge of the electron is one. But that's because she worships Satan." - Eric Carlson [astro/particle], describing to undergrads that G=1(=c=hbar)