"After I retired, it was quite a long……" — Peter Higgs
"After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it."
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16 Quotes by Peter Higgs
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That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call…
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I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in…
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This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
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The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a…
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I would send back a statement: ‘None.’
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Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment…
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I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department:…
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If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
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Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to…
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I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
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I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been…
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I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.
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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
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