Peter Higgs

1929–2024 · British physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Topics: learning, physics

• The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

  — Peter Higgs

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

  — Peter Higgs