To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.