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“It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!”
Explaining what led him to study theoretical physics, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.
in video Meet Peter Higgs by CERN (July 2004).
“Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism””
During the opening of one conference Peter Higgs attended to. The name is after all of the people (Philip Warren Anderson, Robert Brout, François Englert, Gerry Guralnik, Dick Hagen, Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble and Gerard 't Hooft) who discovered it, or rediscovered it.
“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”
Writing to a colleague about his proposal for a particle at the origin of mass (1964), as quoted in The Hunt for the Higgs Boson http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=14, Science Scotland, issue no. 3.
“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.”
in video Meet Peter Higgs http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1019670 by CERN (July 2004).
Explaining how he came to follow the race for the discovery of the Higgs boson from the sidelines, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.
About the early days after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism, as quoted by Peter Rodgers, in Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19750, Physics World (July 10, 2004)
“It's very nice to be right sometimes … it has certainly been a long wait.”
In a press conference asked whether he felt a sense of vindication.
Origine: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/06/prof-higgs-nice-right-boson
Origine: https://www.news.com.au/national/nice-to-be-right-says-peter-higgs-about-bosun-discovery/news-story/f87c237d7b51c8e067ed94e97ed0eb65
