The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.

Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

I'm happy that I've raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.