Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Talent alone does nothing

Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.