"I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error."

"I have always been a rebel."

"I think that the most important thing is to be honest with yourself and with others."

"Every man of science has some favorite hypothesis which he cultivates, and with which he is so intimately bound up, that he would be glad to see it universally adopted."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."