Mark Oliphant

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

— Mark Oliphant

I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear…

— Mark Oliphant

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

— Mark Oliphant

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

— Mark Oliphant

I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be…

— Mark Oliphant

I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.

— Mark Oliphant