Peter Higgs Quotes

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

It's nice to be right sometimes.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

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

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.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

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

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.