Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

Love is the strength of the heart.

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.