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Peter Higgs Quotes

1929–2024 England

Peter Ware Higgs FRS FRSE (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.

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

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

It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism”

It's very nice to be right sometimes ... it has certainly been a long wait.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Higgs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.