Sheldon Glashow
Shared the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory.
Most quoted
"The Standard Model is a theory of almost everything, but not quite everything. It's a theory of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions, but it doesn't include gravity. And it doesn't explain why there are three generations of quarks and leptons, or why the Higgs boson has the mass it does."
— from Various interviews and lectures
"We do not ask for what end the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for song. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens."
— from Nobel Lecture, 1991
"Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) are beautiful, but they're not necessarily true. They're a step in the right direction, but they're not the final answer."
— from Various interviews and lectures
All quotes by Sheldon Glashow (393)
The greatest theories are those that are fruitful, that lead to new questions and new discoveries.
I never set out to win a prize. I set out to solve a puzzle.
The frontier of high-energy physics is always moving, pushed by technology and imagination.
Democritus was right: In the end, everything is atoms and void. He just didn't know about the void's structure.
A failed experiment is not a failure. It is a data point telling you to look elsewhere.
The 'God particle' is a terrible name. It is neither about God, nor is it the only particle.
We are lucky to live in an age of discovery. The 20th century was the century of physics.
The unity of nature is the deepest truth we have glimpsed.
Doing physics is like being lost in a maze, but you have faith that there is an exit.
The most important tool in physics is not a particle accelerator; it is the human mind.
I have often been wrong, and I expect to be wrong again. That is how we learn.
The laws of physics are written in a mathematical language we are still learning to read.
Curiosity is the engine of science. Without it, we would still be in the cave.
Contemporaries of Sheldon Glashow
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Sheldon Glashow (1932).