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

January 1, 1970

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About the early days after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism, as quoted by Peter Rodgers, in Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson, Physics World (July 10, 2004)