Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?