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

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.

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.

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.

I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.

My husband is my most valuable resource.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.