I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

Nature...cannot be fooled!