I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.