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

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.

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

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.

If we love God, we will love another. Love is God.

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.