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.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.

Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.