"This summer I have discovered something totally useless."

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

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

"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…"