British - Physicist | May 29, 1929 -
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
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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.
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I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
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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.'
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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'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., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.
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One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
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After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
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I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.
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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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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
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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.
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