My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'