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. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
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. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
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. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
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. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn’t interested in taking care of people’s ills. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
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 With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
There’s something called From ‘Alchemy to Quarks,’ which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
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. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
