The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Strange... The more I befriend my solitude, the more people desire my company.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Simple duty hath no place for fear.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.