Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don’t think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of – oh, it must have been 1942 – ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam’s doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
