Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

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.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you willfind happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work not yours.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

One by one, the others all nodded their heads again, as if we were talking about having a spring picnic instead of going up against the deadliest woman in Ashland and all of her men.

The friend of silence comes close to God.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.