Quote

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.'

Peter Higgs

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Higgs
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: May 29
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
Newcastle
Peter Ware Higgs
Research
Statements
Assessment
Exercise
Department
Exercises
Please
Send
Publication
Give
Round
Embarrassment
Back
Rounds
Recent
Giving
Message
Statement
Would
Messages
List
None
Lists
Publications

More quotes by Peter Higgs

Image
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.
Peter Higgs
Image
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
Peter Higgs
Image
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.
Peter Higgs
Image
I would send back a statement: ‘None.’
Peter Higgs
Image
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
Peter Higgs