The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

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

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

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