You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.