I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not receptive." "If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.