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.

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.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

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

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.