Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.