The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos. — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe.… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic]… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share
