The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
