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.

What is known for certain is dull.

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.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

I have tried in my way to be free.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.