"Nobody else took what I was doing seriously,……" — Peter Higgs
"Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky."
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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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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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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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