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

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.

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.

I try very hard to be annoying! Don't insult my ability to annoy!

Love truly is the strongest emotion. Find it, hold it and use it

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?

Nothing burns like the cold.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.