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.

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.

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

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.

Your future does not hinge on the world situation, however grim it might become. It depends on what happened 2, 000 years ago at the cross and your acceptance or rejection of the Prince of Peace.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

I have my own strength.

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.