The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one I’d fight to protect, one I’d die to keep.

HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

Why sleep when there are books to read.

What a wonderful way to kill. (Misa)

I've had a mentality that I can do anything, I've never put limitations on myself