You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

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.

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

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.

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.

I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?

Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!