In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

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

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

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.

Money is not the driving force behind my decisions to accept or reject a project.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.