Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

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.

I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only opportunity to make tomorrow a success.

The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

Culture is not race and race is not culture.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you!

I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.