"When you are a scientist, you are a child. You are always asking 'Why?'"

"The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting."

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

"I was in an intellectual fight with my father, and I kept saying, 'But the books say it!' And he said, 'The books are wrong!'"