The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

I'm a big country fan.

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

I think of language as our first music.