Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

Believe in your dreams and ideals and pursue them with determination and motivation. Always find the time to do something for other people. Indeed, there is nothing more rewarding than making someone else happy.

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.

Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.