Steve Weinberg, a doyen of particle physics who was one of the Model's architects, has described neutrino mass as the most important discovery in particle physics for a quarter of a century.

粒子物理学的资深研究者——史蒂夫·温伯格，他也是标准模型的创建者之一，称中微子质量的发现是四分之一个世纪以来，粒子物理学界最重要的发现。