An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?