"Arriving in the States, I had the feeling of being thrown into an ocean. The ocean was full of knowledge, culture and…"

"The culture was foreign, the language was difficult, but my hopes were high."

"[After the publication of his 1934 paper proposing meson theory] I felt like a traveler who rests himself at a small …"

"Yukawa is explicit in acknowledging that the growth of modern science from the seeds sown in Western, mainly Greek, a…"

"Hideki Yukawa's mind throughout his life remained very much an oriental one. We learn that of the ancient Chinese wri…"

"While accepting the fact that his later mental struggles to discern the nature of particles – 'drawing circles on the…"

"On a new derivation of Birkhoff's strong ergodic hypothesis he once remarked in exasperation: "To be any more immacul…"

"... he gave a seminar in Oxford about his ideas on liquid helium, but on this occasion even the theorists were baffle…"