Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

What is known for certain is dull.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

People are best judged by their actions

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

Does it have a bed?" Liz asked doing her best to prop him up."A couple of old army cots that probably have more mildew than a politician has bullshit.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.

I've got to stand up for the sport.