Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.