I don't really take myself very seriously..

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; ….

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that..

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms..

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together..

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in….

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them..

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a less….

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prot….

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming..

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing..

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool..

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and n….

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy..

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of inventio….

The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or ….

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress..

On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of….

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall..

[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I….

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the….