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“Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them.”
― Jon Butterworth, Smashing Physics

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“There are many good things about Switzerland. The flag is a big plus. Also – possibly in reaction to the excess of meetings at CERN, the United Nations or the World Trade Organization – a Swiss political party formed in 2011 with a policy to ban PowerPoint. Contingency plans, including holding all meetings over the French border in the Prévessin site of CERN or (clearly very popular) enforcing a strict LaTeX-only policy, were discussed extensively.”
― Jon Butterworth, Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

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“There are a lot of seemingly arbitrary features of nature here that, to a certain type of mind (e.g. mine), plead for a more elegant explanation than ‘just because’.”
― Jon Butterworth, Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

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