A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.