However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.