Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.