"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

"I was very surprised when I got the Nobel Prize. I didn't think I deserved it."

"I have no responsibility to be like what other people expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."

"I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I'll agree. Then he says, 'You see, as a scient…"

"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."