-...Origin: coined in 1963 by U.S. physicist Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929),......
"When astronomers discover something they can't explain, they think about it as hard as they can for 15 minutes, and then they attribute it to a new law of physics."
I'm not sure exactly what he was referring to -- perhaps Fred Hoyle and the steady-state theory, perhaps people who were coming up with strange theories to explain the spectra of quasars.
Murray Gell-man postualted their existence in the early 20th Century and their existence was later verified by means of particle accelerators.
It originated from an exclamation a Martian made in a science fiction novel.
Captain Quark from Ratchet and Clank. Everyone knows that.
