And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.

I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.