"I was already, I think, at the age……" — Peter Higgs

"I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab."

— Peter Higgs

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16 Quotes by Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call…
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in…
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…
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…
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department:…
After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was…
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…
I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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