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 excitexperimentsomeday Change image and share on social
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it. Sheldon Lee Glashow corporatecriticalityeconomic Change image and share on social
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 basiccuriositylot Change image and share on social
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 acceptadamantchild share on social
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic. Sheldon Lee Glashow clearmakeparent Change image and share on social
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 With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.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 1950sadventaura share on social
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 begincoherentdiscipline share on social
I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis. Sheldon Lee Glashow callcommitmentdecay share on social