Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]""Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Stay with me?” His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. “Always.

Europe was set free largely thanks to the Protestant reformation that began to teach that believers don’t have any assurances to salvation through the back doors.

The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.