A Living Cell Requires Energy Not Only

Water Is Life's Matter And Matrix, Mother And Medium. There Is No Life Without Water.

If I Go Out Into Nature, Into The Unknown, To The Fringes Of Knowledge, Everything Seems Mixed Up And Contradictory, Illogical, And Incoherent. This Is What Research Does; It Smooths Out Contradictions And Makes Things Simple, Logical, And Coherent.

I Always Tried To Live Up To Leo Szilard's Commandment, "don't Lie If You Don't Have To." I Had To. I Filled Up Pages With Words And Plans I Knew I Would Not Follow. When I Go Home From My Laboratory In The Late Afternoon, I Often Do Not Know What I Am Going To Do The Next Day. I Expect To Think That Up During The Night. How Could I Tell Them What I Would Do A Year Hence?

Research Is Four Things: Brains With Which To Think, Eyes With Which To See, Machines With Which To Measure And, Fourth, Money.

If Any Student Comes To Me And Says He Wants To Be Useful To Mankind And Go Into Research To Alleviate Human Suffering, I Advise Him To Go Into Charity Instead. Research Wants Real Egotists Who Seek Their Own Pleasure And Satisfaction, But Find It In Solving The Puzzles Of Nature.