Peter Higgs Quotes

Peter Higgs — British Physicist born on May 29, 1929,

Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles... (wikipedia)

It's nice to be right sometimes.

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.

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, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

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.'

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

Peter Higgs Quotes

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