There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.