It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.