Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

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

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

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

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

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

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.