Particle Discovery Quotes

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.

I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons.