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.

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.

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.

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

The path of imperfection is the loving way to learn tolerance and happiness.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

You can't really fake confidence. You know what I mean? Just be confident in who you are when you walk into a room, feel like you own it.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.