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.

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

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

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.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.