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.

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.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.

Love happens only once, and the second time is always a compromise made to forget the first love.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.