I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

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'.

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.

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!