All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.