自然知识的改进者绝对拒绝承认权威。对他来说，怀疑主义是最高的责任；盲目信仰是不可饶恕的罪过。

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The explanatory gap between physical processes and conscious experience remains as wide as ever.

In chemistry, as in life, the most transformative reactions often require patience and precise conditions.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.