A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A… — 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
