My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sor…

- Peter Higgs

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

- Peter Higgs

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

- Peter Higgs

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

- Peter Higgs

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

- Peter Higgs

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

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…

- Peter Higgs

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,…

- Peter Higgs

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…

- Peter Higgs