Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is