What is known for certain is dull.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.