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

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

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

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

I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Love is Fallen.... Like *FALLEN* ANGELS.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.