“What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.”

“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I wish I could name them all and tell you their contributions. More, however, than anyone else it was the late Rudolf Schoenheimer, a brilliant scholar and a man of infectious enthusiasm, who introduced me to the wonders of Biochemistry. Ever since, I have been happy to have chosen science as my career, and, to borrow a phrase of Jacques Barzun, have felt that 'Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment'.”

“Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.”

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”

“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.”

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.”

“"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.”

“Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

“In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.”

“In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.”