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• That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that…
• I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
• This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
• The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium…
• I would send back a statement: ‘None.’
• Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
• My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a…
• I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give…
• After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out…
• If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
• Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a…
• I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

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