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.

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

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

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

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

But never has the Call been so clearAs now, when death’s cool handEases my spirit from my fevered body--And I answer the Call of the Master—The Call to new Heights.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.