The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.