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, The god of small things (2007)

Explaining how he came to follow the Higgs boson race from the sidelines; quoted by Ian Sample in a 2007 Guardian article.

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