There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

What is necessary is never unwise.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.