Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.