I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.