I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.