I Recognize That Many Physicists Are Smarter

I Try To Identify Myself With The Atoms ... I Ask What I Would Do If I Were A Carbon Atom Or A Sodium Atom.

It Was Obvious-to Me At Any Rate-that The Answer Was To Why An Enzyme Is Able To Speed Up A Chemical Reaction By As Much As 10 Million Times. It Had To Do This By Lowering The Energy Of Activation-the Energy Of Forming The Activated Complex. It Could Do This By Forming Strong Bonds With The Activated Complex, But Only Weak Bonds With The Reactants Or Products.

The Way To Get Good Ideas Is To Get Lots Of Ideas And Throw The Bad Ones Away.

I Have Been Especially Fortunate For About 50 Years In Having Two Memory Banks Available-whenever I Can't Remember Something I Ask My Wife, And Thus I Am Able To Draw On This Auxiliary Memory Bank. Moreover, There Is A Second Way In Which I Get Ideas ... I Listen Carefully To What My Wife Says, And In This Way I Often Get A Good Idea. I Recommend To ... Young People ... That You Make A Permanent Acquisition Of An Auxiliary Memory Bank That You Can Become Familiar With And Draw Upon Throughout Your Lives.

Science Is The Search For Truth, That Is The Effort To Understand The World: It Involves The Rejection Of Bias, Of Dogma, Of Revelation, But Not The Rejection Of Morality.