Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.