“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”

“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.”

“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”

“Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.”

“[When suggested he could have invented crisps] I couldn’t have invented crisps. […] I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. […] I invented apples. […] I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.”

“By far the gentlest man I have ever known.”

“Hippocrates… is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how he could have done this except by some form, or anticipation, of the method”

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

“There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present. Thousands of inventors, known and unknown, who have died in poverty, have co-operated in the invention of each of these machines which embody the genius of man.”

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”