One cannot plan for the unexpected.

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.

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.

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.

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

Passion is the genius of genius.