Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.