quotes

...the symmetry between the left and the right, is as old as human civilization...debated at length by philosophers of the past.

-- Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Lecture 1957

To decide unequivocally whether parity is conserved in weak interactions, one must perform an experiment to determine whether weak interactions differentiate the right from the left. (One must) measure the angular distribution of the electrons coming from beta-decays of oriented nuclei... (This was done late in 1956 by Chien-Shiung Wu: Lee received a phone call from her that there was a rather large asymmetry in the angular distribution.)

-- Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, 1956

On reflecting a neutrino in a mirror, one sees nothing.

-- Abdus Salam, 1957

The fact that the large difference in the masses of the muon and the electron does not seem to induce other differences in their properties is one of the most fascinating in contemporary physics.

-- Leon Lederman, 1963

...the discovery of non-vanishing neutrino masses would shed light on the theory beyond the standard model; thus it is one of the important issues experimentalists have to address.

-- Jean-Luc Vuilleumier, 1986