Peter Higgs

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP,…

— Peter Higgs

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out…

— Peter Higgs

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or…

— Peter Higgs

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

— Peter Higgs

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But…

— Peter Higgs

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

— Peter Higgs

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the…

— Peter Higgs

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

— Peter Higgs

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get…

— Peter Higgs

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

— Peter Higgs

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

— Peter Higgs

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge…

— Peter Higgs

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to…

— Peter Higgs