“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”

“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“Were organisms; were conceived, were born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.”

“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”

“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at first glance I saw that the broth culture, which the ni...”

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”