Peter Higgs Inspirational Quotes (6)

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

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.'

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.

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 would send back a statement: ‘None.’

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