[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs, ” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.