[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
The man who walks with Henslow.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Biography is the best form of history.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.