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

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.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

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.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

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