General Sayings

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you failure.

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they say that it does bring luck even if you don't believe in it!

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

By the way, Professor, you know that paper in which you say those quantities are analogous... Did you know they're proportional?

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime—it's not very scientific, but it helps.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.