If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.
My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!
Rita Vrataski: We should just reset.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.
There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
