Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

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

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.