Max Perutz Quotes

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.

What is known for certain is dull.

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

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

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'.

I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

People are best judged by their actions

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