If you look at the arms of the Mexican Republic, on a passport or a silver dollar, you will see a representation of a rock surrounded by water.

British science has a certain style and, of course, my problem is that, although I was born in Czechoslovakia, I am the archetypal British scientist.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent...

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

For God’s sake build not your faith upon Tradition, ’tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

A man is as old as his arteries.

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics,...

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences...

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

I don’t know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at...

As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine –...

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

One of my theme songs is that if you can’t do it in a test tube, don’t do it.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble...

If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is better, you may and no harm done.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological...

The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind.

I don’t suppose I’ll ever retire completely.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God’s Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or...

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets – very large sheets...

Gout produces calculus in the kidney… the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting...

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

So I think that as science is organized in Japan at the moment it will not make a great deal of headway in innovative science. That’s my own opinion.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion...

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

I think British science is becoming more like American science – and then there is everybody else, I’m afraid.