Words matter. These are the best Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It’s a big deal.
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
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.
People want to know about what’s going on with what’s in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It’s a lot of curiosity out there.
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of – oh, it must have been 1942 – ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.
Chemistry is good for fun – it’s like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can’t see an adult being concerned with it.
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam’s doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.
There’s something called From ‘Alchemy to Quarks,’ which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types – chemists and physicists and biologists and such – and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.
I suppose I’m worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won’t be anyone around who knows what experiments are.
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They’re attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That’s certainly physics, but it’s a kind of physics that is not yet testable.
It’s a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.
Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don’t think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.
