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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

— Peter Higgs

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.

— Lene Hau

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.

— Burton Richter

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

— Albert Einstein

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

— John Henry Carver

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

— James Wan

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

— Seth Lloyd

The heart of science is measurement.

— Erik Brynjolfsson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

— Richard Ernst

I have invented the Thermometer style.

— Josef Albers