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 Nobel Prize is a pat on the back, but science is a lifelong marathon.
Particles are not things; they are excitations in fields.
Skepticism is the scientist's best friend.
In the end, all theories must face the tribunal of experiment.
Humor keeps the physicist sane in an insane universe.
The charm quark was discovered because we predicted it.
Science progresses funeral by funeral.
I don't believe in God, but I believe in the beauty of equations.
Theoretical physics is 99% inspiration and 1% calculation.
The multiverse is a cop-out for failed predictions.
Collaboration is the secret sauce of great discoveries.
Einstein was wrong; God does play dice with the universe.
Symmetry is the language of nature.
Doubt is not a sign of weakness; it's the engine of progress.
The Higgs boson is the last piece of the Standard Model puzzle.
Life's meaning? To seek truth and share it.
String theory has more dimensions than sense.
Gauge theories unify what was once separate.
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfied the physicist.
The universe is mathematical, and we're just trying to read the score.
Contemporaries of Sheldon Glashow
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Sheldon Glashow (1932).