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I don't value prizes of any sort.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.