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

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

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

Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.