Computers Quote by Peter Higgs

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

“The same energy density that we reach today in electron-positron collisions pervaded the entire universe one ten-billionth of a second after the Big Bang.…

— Henning Genz

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had…

— Jim Benton

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

— Ben Aaronovitch

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to…

— John Charles Polanyi

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

— Stephen Hawking

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and…

— Martin Rees

“Before the particles that we observe today materialized, all matter in the early universe must have gone through this stage of a quark-gluon soup,…

— Henning Genz

“Henceforth, people became obsessed with the idea that machines and engines could be used to convert one type of energy into another.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

My first visit to the Large Hadron Collider was in April 2008, before it started up, and CERN had some open days. They were…

— Peter Higgs