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.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Don’t give up on trying everyday

When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.

Because I took the sun for granted it shone on me.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.