When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Life is plain. But never a pain.

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back