My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

What we see and believe about our self is what life will give back in return.

Transformation begins in the darkness of your unconscious with the notion of something you can become.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?