After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

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.