There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.

If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ....

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

I believe in a magnificent God.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.