New truths become evident when new tools become available.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.