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

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

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.

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.

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.

I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.

Story goes that he wanted many things from one women, and she wanted one thing from many men.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.