"I am not interested in fame or fortune. I am interested in truth."

"Well, I thought, that's nice of the old guy to say that, but I'm a little skeptical myself. And as the years went by, I thought, I don't do the sort of work for which Nobel Prizes are given."

"I believe that there is a way to make the world better, and that we have a responsibility to find it."

"Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones."

"I had begun to think about the theory of the chemical bond very seriously in 1926, '27, after quantum mechanics was discovered and then in 1928 I published a paper, a preliminary paper, and said that …"