“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”

“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”

“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”

“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”

“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”

“Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”

“We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I wil...”

“I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.”

“If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”