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I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

Peter Higgs
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"Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'