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)
Experiments are the referees in the game of theories.
Aging gracefully means embracing the unknown.
Witten is a genius, but even geniuses can be wrong.
Renormalization is the art of sweeping infinities under the rug.
Peace comes from understanding, not from weapons.
The joy of discovery is worth more than any prize.
Dark matter? More like dark humor in cosmology.
Unity in diversity: that's the electroweak way.
Philosophy without physics is empty; physics without philosophy is blind.
I owe my success to mentors like Schwinger.
Quantum field theory is the machinery of reality.
Happiness is a good theory that works.
Supersymmetry is elegant but elusive.
Art and science both seek beauty in patterns.
Failure is the fertilizer of success in research.
The cosmos laughs at our puny attempts to understand it.
Neutrinos are ghostly, but they tell real stories.
Live fully, question everything, contribute boldly.
Theory without data is fiction; data without theory is trivia.
In physics, as in life, balance is key.
Contemporaries of Sheldon Glashow
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Sheldon Glashow (1932).