People are best judged by their actions.

For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book ….

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 chem….

Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of bea….

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

What is known for certain is dull..

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

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 tear….

I rarely plan my research; it plans me..

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

A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the reve….