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

- Max Perutz

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

- Max Perutz

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…

- Max Perutz

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

- Max Perutz

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 …

- Max Perutz

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…

- Max Perutz

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…

- Max Perutz

What is known for certain is dull.

- Max Perutz

I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

- Max Perutz