The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

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.

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

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.