"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."

"The most important thing in science is to ask the right questions."

"Anybody could see that quantum mechanics must lead to the tetrahedral carbon atom, because we have it. But the equations were so complicated that I never could be sure that I could present the argumen…"

"I believe that the future of humanity depends on our ability to cooperate and to solve the problems that confront us."

"You can't have a good idea unless you have a lot of ideas."