Discovery Quote by Leon M. Lederman

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence…

— Bill Foster

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of…

— Steven Weinberg

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because…

— Douglas Adams

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the…

— Albert Einstein

Politics is more difficult than physics.

— Albert Einstein

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad…

— Abraham Pais

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding…

— Simon van der Meer

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am…

— Michio Kaku

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

— Steven Weinberg

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous…

— Leonard Susskind

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

— Anthony Standen