You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.