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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which was proposed by several physicists besides Higgs at about the... Read full biography of Peter Higgs → 1 2 Ctrl → 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. 0 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... → 0 My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal... → 0 I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a... → 0 I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not... → 0 It's nice to be right sometimes. 0 One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater. 0 When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't. 0 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... → 0 I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S.... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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