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Peter Higgs Quotes

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: ‘Please give a list of your recent publications.’ And I would send back a statement: ‘None.’ Picture Quote #1

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking’s comments. I said one shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory Picture Quote #1

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis Picture Quote #1

It shouldn’t be a Higgs field. If it’s anybody’s, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model Picture Quote #1

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There’s even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn’t Picture Quote #1

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I’d never enjoyed King’s College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London Picture Quote #1

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it Picture Quote #1

This summer I have discovered something totally useless Picture Quote #1

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen Picture Quote #1

$The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water Picture Quote #1$

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge Picture Quote #1

The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that’s the way to think of the generation of mass Picture Quote #1

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn’t exactly nothing Picture Quote #1

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I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: ‘Please give a list of your recent publications.’ And I would send back a statement: ‘None.’ (Peter Higgs Quotes) In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking’s comments. I said one shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory. (Peter Higgs Quotes) I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis. (Peter Higgs Quotes) It shouldn’t be a Higgs field. If it’s anybody’s, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model. (Peter Higgs Quotes) My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There’s even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad. (Peter Higgs Quotes) 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. (Peter Higgs Quotes) When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn’t. (Peter Higgs Quotes) I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I’d never enjoyed King’s College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London. (Peter Higgs Quotes) After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. (Peter Higgs Quotes) This summer I have discovered something totally useless (Peter Higgs Quotes) There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen (Peter Higgs Quotes) The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water (Peter Higgs Quotes) 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 (Peter Higgs Quotes) 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 (Peter Higgs Quotes) I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge (Peter Higgs Quotes) The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that’s the way to think of the generation of mass (Peter Higgs Quotes) When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn’t exactly nothing (Peter Higgs Quotes)