Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.