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

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Source : "Meet Peter Higgs". Videoby CERN, videos.cern.ch. July 1, 2004.

Peter Higgs

#Looks Quotes #Fields Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.”
“To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.”
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”
“Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.”
“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

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