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The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.

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I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

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I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

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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.

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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.

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My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

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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.

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It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

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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.

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There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: December 5th, 1932

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