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You can't rush inspiration.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.