Felix Bloch quotes:

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.