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

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

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 sor….

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,….

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….

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind o….

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

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..

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it wa….

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

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

This summer I have discovered something totally useless..