Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.

Only Live Like You (OLLY)

it’s funny how I’m encouraged to go to school so much, but I’ve learned more valuable things on google then from school.

I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

I decided to make news, not give it.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

How do you make yourself not like someone?

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.