This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!