Leon Lederman is a an American physicist who found two pieces of the Standard Model and wrote The God Particle.

Quotes by Leon Lederman in Time One

We can try to imagine the pre-Big Bang universe: timeless, featureless, but in some unimaginable way beholden to the laws of physics.

[T]he universe is the answer, but damned if we know the question.

Democritus: Have you seen anything inside quarks? Mercedes: [shaking her head, smiling] As far as we can tell, quarks and leptons are as good an approximation to points as you can get. Democritus: [jumping up and down, clapping, laughing hysterically] Atomos! Finally.

The laws of nature must have existed before even time began in order for the beginning to happen.

Scientists, more often than not, are people …