... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.