No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut