Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

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

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

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.