I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter. — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who… — James Cronin Copy Share Image
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
“Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences.” — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
“Over the last three decades, theorists have proposed at least a dozen new approaches. Each approach is motivated by a compelling hypothesis,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“One success of noncommutative geometry is that it leads directly to the standard model of particle physics. As Alain and his colleagues… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The current crisis in particle physics springs from the fact that the theories have gone beyond the standard model in the last… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
“I never thought about a job in astronomy until I saw a job advert advertising one. It was in the Canary Islands,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“I don’t get it,” Clarence whispered to me. “We’re the only ones in the place. When are your friends supposed to get… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
“The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics: Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The great unanswered question is whether there exists some undiscovered organizing principle which complements the known laws of Nature and dictates the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Another class of universal truths is the conservation laws, where the amount of some measured quantity remains unchanged no matter what. The… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Despite my resistance to hyperbole, the LHC belongs to a world that can only be described with superlatives. It is not merely… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“It seems to me trivially true that particle physics does in fact deal with the simplest objects in the entire universe: atoms… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image