Boring Quote by Steven Weinberg

An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

— Henry Stapp

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous…

— Leonard Susskind

“Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your…

— William Lane Craig

“The elementary particles are often dubbed the atoms of our day. That may or may not be correct. It might be an acceptable metaphor…

— Henning Genz

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that…

— Edward Witten

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

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made…

— Sean M. Carroll

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

— Bill Bryson

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we…

— Richard P. Feynman

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

— Hilaire Belloc

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the…

— Sean M. Carroll