If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. . . . Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. . . As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens
I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.