It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Though I never really had you….… to me you will always be the one that got away.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you