“Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.”

“Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.”

“Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.”

“You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.”

“I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.”

“You are on the side of angels. But even angels fall, sometimes. We all make mistakes; without them we would learn nothing.”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

“There is always a worthy prize for DISCOVERY. Discover what you love doing, develop and deploy it and LIFE has new meanings everyday”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”