I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

I like going to the gym every day.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.