"My recollection of the higher school certificate, which……" — Peter Higgs
"My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work."
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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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I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department:…
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After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was…
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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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More Arrangement Quotes
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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