“Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.”

“Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. ”

“All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.”

“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody’s allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn’t be added to except by special permission from the head cook.”

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”

“It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.”