Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Life is a sacred bliss.

We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

We need to be fighting and rallying around the common American values. This is where the Democratic Party needs to learn and grow as we move forward.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely