Arbitrary Quote by Leonard Susskind

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

— Steven Weinberg

The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim…

— Peter Woit

I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the…

— Lewis Thomas

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

— Murray Gell-Mann

“Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your…

— William Lane Craig

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

“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain…

— Steven Vogel

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

— Werner Heisenberg

“The elementary particles are often dubbed the atoms of our day. That may or may not be correct. It might be an acceptable metaphor…

— Henning Genz

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!"…

— Adam Frank

There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whence theorems, laws, concepts are born that no one…

— Mariana Fulger

My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we…

— Neil Turok