In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

In: Wilhelm Odelberg, Les Prix Nobel en 1975, John Cornforth's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975, Bobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. 1976