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

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

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.

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

Write, ' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

There is no problem if there is ‘egoism’. But, it should be ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ egoism means that it does not hurt anyone.

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.