In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

God already knew the ones who would be saved, even before their birth

If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

I don't waste time being depressed.

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.