Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.