I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

The more far-out artists, the better.

I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history.

If you havent got any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Working people have a lot of bad habits but the worst of these is work.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.

When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.