"This summer I have discovered something totally useless."

"The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transpa…"

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

"It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!"

"The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly g…"

"Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism”"

"It's very nice to be right sometimes ... it has certainly been a long wait."

"During my undergraduate course in physics at the University of Edinburgh, we were getting a bit bogged down in it, an…"

"My research has been funded by taxpayers throughout my whole life, so I have always been a keen science communicator.…"

"This really came about because the man who hired me for my first post-doc position was a chemical engineering profess…"