Concerned Quote by Simon van der Meer

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain…

— Simon van der Meer

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have…

— Peter Higgs

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building…

— John Henry Carver

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way…

— Werner Heisenberg

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory.…

— Michio Kaku

Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound…

— Leon M. Lederman

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

— Ashoke Sen

The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.

— Alan Guth

I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry out fundamental…

— Barry Barish

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

— Werner Heisenberg

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

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

— Murray Gell-Mann